Albert Lecube graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona in 1993, a fellow in Endocrinology and Nutrition at the University Hospital Vall d'Hebrón (1995–1999), and reached the degree of Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) in 2005. Between 1997 and 2017, he was a member of the Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group of the Vall d'Hebrón Research Institute (VHIR), and since then he has directed the Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group (ODIM) at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Lleida (IRBLleida). He has been member of the board of the Catalan Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SCEN) and member of the board of the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEEDO), coordinator of the Working Group on Obesity of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (GOSEEN, 2011–2014), and coordinator of the Working Group on Diabesity and comorbidities of obesity of the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (DIACOMO). He has twice received the Young Researcher in Endocrinology Prize awarded by the Foundation of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (2003 and 2008), as well as the “Carrasco i Formiguera” Award from the Spanish Diabetes Society. His main areas of interest are (i) the study of the deleterious impact of diabetes on lung function and sleep breathing and (ii) the comorbidities associated with morbid obesity, its evolution after bariatric surgery, and how genetic susceptibility influences the response to surgery.