Daniel R. González earned, from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, a BS in Biochemistry and a PhD in Biological Sciences. He is now an Associate Professor of the Biomedical Sciences at the School of Health Sciences at the Universidad de Talca. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution and as a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. His research focuses on the interplay between oxidative and nitrosative species in cardiac disorders, including dystrophic cardiomyopathy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, and cardiac aging, studying the heart at the molecular, cellular, and intact organ levels.