Cristian Launes graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 2005 and obtained his Paediatrics specialty in 2010 at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital. In 2012, he received his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Barcelona, earning the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his thesis on the 2009 pandemic influenza virus. He then became a postdoctoral researcher in the pediatric infectious diseases translational research group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu. He is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Barcelona (SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital). Cristian is a researcher at the Paediatric Infectology Research Group at the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu and at the Spanish network CIBER for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP). He has published over 75 manuscripts in international literature and is the principal investigator of several projects on viral respiratory infections in children. Since 2011, he has worked at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital. His main areas of interest are diagnosing and treating children with infectious diseases.