The Proffesor Maider Kortajarena Rubio studied Nursing and Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV / EHU). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE She worked at the Basque Health Service-OSAKIDETZA as a clinical nurse for 9 years in different services: Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Maternity, Surgery, Otolaryngology and Primary Health Care. TEACHING She started with her teaching-research experience at the UPV / EHU in 2006 in the Department of Nursing I. The subjects in which she teaches in the Degree of Nursing are Public Health and Pathology and Basic Care. She teaches and is coordinator of several subjects of the Official Master's Degree Healthy Aging and Quality of Life since its first promotion in 2014. She earned a grade of B in the Docentiaz Program of evaluation of the activity of the teaching staff of the UPV / EHU (2008-2012). RESEARCH She obtained the degree of PhD in 2012 with the work entitled Physical Activity and its relation with health in autonomous elderly people. The research work is carried out in the AGEING ON group in matters related to the population's physical activity habits and aging. She has supervised 40 Bachelor's degree final projects, 6 Master's degree final projects, and a doctoral thesis. She has obtained a positive evaluation by the Quality Agency of the Basque University System (Unibasq) of the research activity of the permanent professors of the UPV / EHU (2012-2018).