Dr Martínez-González is a professor and the director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Navarra. He has been an adjunct professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health since 2016. He is considered one of the leading experts on the Mediterranean diet and has conducted several studies related to its effects on health, diabetes, obesity, depression, and eating habits. He is the founder and principal investigator of the SUN project, an epidemiological cohort with more than 23,000 participants and has been the principal investigator of more than 20 research projects. He is also the Principal Investigator of the PREDIMED-Plus study and principal investigator of 3 NIH projects on the Mediterranean Diet and Metabolism, funded by the US government. He has supervised more than 34 doctoral theses, 12 of which received an extraordinary award.