David Solà-Oriol obtained a PhD in Animal Nutrition at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2008. After finishing his PhD degree, he started as a researcher and Technical Director of the Servei de Nutrició d’Animals Monogastrics (SNAM) at the UAB. From 2009 to present, he has been working as a researcher in non-ruminant nutrition (swine and poultry) at the Servei de Nutrició i Benestar Animal (SNiBA) of the Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he has been developing several private and public funding projects between the university and various companies. His research interests include sensorial perception and its role in food/feed intake regulation taking into account the interactions between food/feed, the gut (as post-ingestive effects) and the brain, feeding status, nutrient restriction, and gut hormones and taste receptors. Moreover, his main research area is swine nutrition and pig performance, mainly in lactating sows and weaning pigs. His research methodologies/strategies include feed preferences, digestive process, nutrient absorption and gut hormones.