Alvaro Hernáez Camba

Academic background
• PhD in Food Science and Nutrition, University of Barcelona, 2016
• MSc in Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Barcelona, 2012
• BSc in Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, 2011

Teaching activity
• Associate Lecturer, Universitat Ramon Llull (2017– )
• Teaching: epidemiology, public health, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, personalized medicine
• PhD supervision (2 completed, 3 ongoing)

Research and transfer activity
• 76 publications; h-index 30; >3,600 citations
• Fields: cardiovascular epidemiology, lipids, nutrition, genetics
• Methods: Mendelian randomization, GWAS, PRS
• PI projects: PI24/00182; FI25/00006; 101201060; 2026-URL-Proj-035; 2025-URL-Proj-014
• Team member in projects with total budget >€6M
• Consortia: PREDIMED, PREDIMED-Plus, REGICOR, CORDELIA, UK Biobank, HUNT, MoBa, ALSPAC

Professional activity
• Postdoctoral fellow IMIM + affiliated researcher CIBERCV (2024– )
• Postdoc: Norwegian Institute of Public Health (2021–2023); IDIBAPS (2018–2020); IMIM (2016–2017)
• Predoc: IMIM (2013–2016)

Recognitions
• Contracts: FPU12/01318 (2013–2017); CD17/00122 (2018–2021); MSCA 101201060 (2025–2027)
• AQU accreditations: Lecturer (2017, code: SB8R42N53); Research (2020, code: 6TMJSJPRN)
• ANECA six-year terms: 2013–2018; 2019–2024
• Extraordinary PhD Award UB, 2017

Academic links
• https://merit.url.edu/es/persons/alvaro-hern%C3%A1ez-camba-4/" target="_new" rel="noopener">https://merit.url.edu/es/persons/alvaro-hern%C3%A1ez-camba-4/