Júlia Candel-Pau is a neonatologist at Hospital del Mar, Barcelona (Spain). She earned her Medicine degree from Universitat de Barcelona in 2003 and her PhD in Medicine in 2014 from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She specialized in Pediatrics at Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona from 2004 to 2008. She obtained a master's degree in Neonatology in 2012 from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and completed a postgraduate course in the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) in 2013 at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has been working as a neonatologist at Hospital del Mar since 2015. She is also an associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.