Dr. Anna Arola holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry awarded by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and a PhD awarded by the University of London (diploma of the Imperial College London). Currently, she is a Serra Húnter Associate Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Her doctoral studies were completed at Imperial College London, and she was awarded a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher position at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), as well as a research collaboration at the University of London. She carried out her postdoctoral research in the Technological Center of Nutrition and Health (CTNS) in the field of functional ingredients. Since September 2010, she has had a full-time post at the DBB of the URV and has been a member of the consolidated Nutrigenomics Research Group. In this research group, she has mainly studied plant polyphenol compounds, mostly proanthocyanidins. In particular, she has studied the quantification of these compounds in fruits and their bioavailability in rats. Moreover, she has studied the beneficial health effects of these compounds on improving the dysfunctions associated with metabolic syndromes associated with obesity and the molecular mechanisms by which these phytochemicals act, focusing on their hypolipidemic and antihypertensive effects. More recently, she has studied the interaction of biological rhythms with the effectiveness and bioavailability of polyphenols.