Speakers

Physiotherapist, PhD by Universidad de Málaga, head of the physiotherapy department at the Universidad de Málaga and main researcher of the “Clinimetría en Fisioterapia” group of the Institute of Biomedical Research in Málaga, accredited by ISCIII (IBIMA F-14). He is a clinical physiotherapist with 21-year experience in complex patients treated with multimodal physiotherapy (education, manual physiotherapy, and physical exercise).

 

He worked as a sports physiotherapist for the athletics and swimming federations, most notably he was on the ITV-Volleyball Málaga team taking part in the European league and on the Spain men’s national volleyball team, until he resumed his work in the clinical field with high-intensity interventions on chronic and fragile patients.

 

As a postdoctoral researcher, he was awarded the “Young doctors, José Castillejo” grant by the Department for Education at the University of London-Roehampton (UK) in 2009-2010. He has been a visiting professor at different international institutions such as the University of Brighton (UK), the University of Lovaine (Belgium), and the University of Sunshine Coast (Queensland, Australia). He is currently adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) and editor of the BMC Sport Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation Journal (BMC series).

 

He has been a graduate and postgraduate professor in different Spanish universities and has directed 22 doctoral theses. His special interest areas include preclinical research through biomechanics and human physiology with biomedical engineering applied to human movement. He is currently taking part in three European projects (H2020, AAL, EULAR) and a COST network. He also participates in the Research Network for the Promotion of Health financed by the Instituto Carlos III (2017-2020), where he has done clinical research on health promotion for chronic conditions by means of clinical trials of multimodal physiotherapy, combining therapeutic exercise and education. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles with an accumulated impact factor over 200 JCR (SSI) points and has participated in raising over €1 million funds for research.