Dr. Eva Rodríguez-Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Nursing of Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain. She graduated in Physiotherapy and obtained a Master’s degree in Social and Health Care Research from UCLM, receiving Extraordinary Awards for both. She subsequently earned her PhD (Cum Laude, International Mention) from the same university, with a doctoral thesis on daily steps as a metric for assessing the influence of physical activity on health. Her research focuses on the role of physical activity, physical fitness and lifestyle behaviours in the prevention of chronic disease and the promotion of physical and mental health across the lifespan, from childhood to older age. Her main lines of work include the relationship between movement behaviours and mental health, the biological mechanisms linking exercise to brain health, cardiometabolic health in paediatric populations, and evidence synthesis through systematic reviews and meta-analyses. She has co-authored more than 40 articles in high-impact international journals and has participated in several competitive research projects funded by regional, national and European bodies. She has completed international research stays at Linköping University (Sweden) and the University of Aveiro (Portugal).