PhD in Veterinary Sciences at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Postdoctoral research training at the Department of Pharmacology, Aarhus University (Denmark). Lecturer positions in Physiology at UCM Veterinary School and at UCM Pharmacy School, and Professor in Physiology at the latter in 2011. Guess Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacology (Aarhus University) and at the Department of Physiology of the New York Medical College (USA) (2009) in the Vascular Oxidative Stress Group led by Professor Michel Wolin. The research focused on the study of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying resistance artery vasculopathy under conditions of insulin resistance and obesity, with special reference to endothelial dysfunction, calcium signaling, and oxidative stress in the coronary and renal vascular beds.