Dr Lopez-Garcia is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and a Senior Researcher at IMDEA Food. She has worked in the development of population studies in Spain (ENRICA and Seniors-ENRICA cohorts), implementing the methodology to measure diet and lifestyles, and objective measures of function, and the creation of  databases.

She has been IP of 4 FIS projects, with continuous funding for research. In addition, she has published more than 200 scientific papers, derived from those projects, in the field of lifestyles in relation to cardiovascular disease and aging. In particular, she has characterized dietary exposures related to the development of physical impairment, hearing loss, risk of recurrent falling, and risk of frailty and multimorbidity. She has also examined the biological mechanisms that explain these associations, with a focus on the metabolomic profiles. This work is done with cohort studies from the USA, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain, and has served to train new researchers in the field of nutritional epidemiology. She is part of the Group 25 at CIBERESP.

In relation to transference, Dr Lopez-Garcia is working as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. This work has allowed her to participate in the development of the National Spanish Dietary Guidelines 2022, in the role of chairman (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715009). Starting in March 2023, she is the President of the Observatorio de la Nutrición y de Estudio de la Obesidad (NAOS), in the same institution. Dr Lopez-Garcia has taught courses of Epidemiology and Public Health for Medicine, Nursing, and Nutrition grades, and Nutritional Epidemiology for the Master of Epidemiology at UAM and Master of Public Health at Instituto de Salud Carlos III. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Health Research Institute of La Paz University Hospital, and of the Nutrition Group from the Spanish Society of Epidemiology. Dr Lopez Garcia scores 152 in the Ranking of most relevant Spanish and foreign female researchers in Spain according to Google Scholar (https://www. webometrics.info/en/investigadoras). 

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