CTS158. GALENO RESEARCH GROUP

Full Professor of Sports Science. Responsible for the line of research "Physical Activity and Health" of the program of Health Sciences of the Doctorate School of the University of Cadiz. Pre and post doctoral research stays in international centers of recognized prestige. A total of 110 articles published in indexed journals participate. Of these, 97 in journals indexed in JCR. He has presented more than 100 communications in the most prestigious international congresses of his topic and has given numerous conferences in Universities and Research Centres. He has participated in a total of 23 research projects, financed in European (3), national (5), regional (10) or local (5) competitive public calls. Main researcher of the multicentric project UP&DOWNStudy of the national plan RETOS, of the project ADULTFIT of the national plan R+D+I challenges, of the international project of the CONICYT Chile, and main researcher by the University of Cadiz of the national multicentric project PREFIT. He currently collaborates with national and international research centres and is responsible for the research group in the Euro-American University Network for Physical Activity, Physical Education, Sport and Recreation, and EXERNET. His activity is focused on studying the benefits of physical activity, preferably physical fitness, in young people and adults, with special interest in cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes and patients with fibromyalgia. In addition to developing methodological tools to assess physical activity and health-related physical fitness. (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7353-0382)