I am a medical doctor specialized in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. I obtained the PhD degree in 2008 and several Spanish competitive contracts: Río Hortega (2008), Miguel Servet I (2013), and Miguel Servet II (2018). I am ICREA Research Professor since December 2024. In 2016 I won the prestigious Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award from Health Effects Institute, USA. I am the Director of the INMA Project, a unique multi-site birth cohort in Spain. I established myself as an international researcher (i.e., Adjunct Professor at Erasmus MC University Medical Centre; visiting scientist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health) and an internationally and nationally recognized expert (e.g., Scientific Advisory Board member of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig; Associate Editor of European Journal of Epidemiology; member of several Spanish scientific and advisory committees; consolidated research group by the Catalan Governement).

I am carrying out pioneering research in the field of environmental epidemiology and child health, with a special focus on brain development. My work has provided unique insights between air pollution exposure and impaired executive function and brain morphology and connectivity in children. In an innovative extension to this research, I have uncovered the role of novel environmental exposure, such as outdoor temperature, on psychiatric symptoms, brain development, and sleep in the context of the climate change. My research integrates state-of-the-art statistical methods, including longitudinal within-person change, life-course epidemiology, causal mediation analysis, and the identification of susceptibility periods, to clarify causal links between environmental exposures and neurodevelopment. I have substantial expertise in large-scale cohort studies.