Medical epidemiologist. Master in Public Health and Doctor of Medicine.

Emeritus Researcher and ex Head of the Nutrition, Environment and Cancer Unit. Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO). He was Coordinator of the European Prospective Investigation into Nutrition and Cancer (EPIC) in Spain, promoted by the European Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) with the participation of 10 European countries, in a cohort of 500,000 individuals. Co-author of more than 350 scientific publications in international journals on nutrition, cancer and chronic diseases, and of several books.  Among them “Nutrition and Cancer: what science teaches us” (Editorial Médica Panamericana, 2016) and the recent one on “Climate emergency, food and healthy life”. (Editorial Icaria 2020). He has been president of the Catalan Society of Public Health of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. He has received several awards for his professional career, including the Danone Scientific Foundation and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC- CCNIEC). Former Professor of Cancer Prevention, Master in Public Health, UPF/UAB (Barcelona) and Professor of the Master in Nutrition and Health at the UOC.