Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra Adjunct Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University ID: 24846617Q Malaga, 11-Sep-1957 • Professor and Director of Department, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra. • He obtained the chair after national qualification at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga (2005). • Adjunct Professor, since 2016 at department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA. (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-martinez-gonzalez/ ) • Principal Investigator-Group Chief CIBER-OBN (www.ciberobn.es/grupos/grupo-de-investigation?id-14891 ) • Founder and Principal Investigator of the SUN project ("Follow-up University of Navarra") epidemiological cohort with 23,000 participants(http://medpreventiva.es/xZd6Hh ) • Coordinator of the PREDIMED Research Network(www.predimed.es)and Principal Investigator (Navarra) of the PREDIMED study • Principal Investigator of the PREDIMED-Plus study (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/188509_en.html ) • Principal investigator of 3 NIH projects funded by the North American government (NIH/NIDDK R01DK102896, NIH/NHLBI 1R01HL118264-01, NIH/NHLBI 2R01HL118264-05) • > 700 scientific publications in indexed journals • h-index (google) - 129 • He is one of the most cited researchers in the world >75,000 • h-index (Web of Science) - 90 i10-index (google)-767 • m-index - 3.2 Items (Web of Science) - 800 Items (PubMed) • >20 bookspublished, including "Health for Sure, 6th ed. (Planet, 2018)", "Friendly Biostatistics, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2014)"and "Public Health Concepts andPreventive Strategies, 2nd ed. (Elsevier, 2018)" • His last book published by Planeta in September 2020: What Do You Eat? Science and conscience to resist • He has directed more than 34 doctoral theses, 12 of them with extraordinary award • He has been principal investigator in more than 20 research projects. • Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra (during 2004-2007). • Guest speaker at more than 300 conferences, more than 50 n USA He is considered one of the leading experts in the Mediterranean diet, on which he has conducted several studies related to the effects he has on health, diabetes, obesity, depression, or eating habits (sugar consumption). In 2019, he published in the British Medical Journal a study that, after evaluating nearly twenty thousand participants, concluded that increased consumption of ultra-processed foods leads to an increased risk of mortality.9 In 2016 he taught the 42 Rankin-Skatrud lecture (Univ. of Wisconsin). In September 2016, he was appointed Visiting Professor (Adjunct Professor) of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is the lead co-investigator with Frank B. Hu of three US National Institutes of Health (NIH) research projects on Mediterranean Diet and Metabolism In 2019 he spoke to chefs and cooks from the large American hotel complexes and restaurants about the Mediterranean diet at the Culinary Institute of America with Walter Willett, the U.S. government's leading advisor on nutritional issues.