Professors and Researchers

David Herrero

David Herrero

Faculty of Health Sciences

PhD in Psychology, Deusto University. Specialization in Traffic and Road Safety, Psychophysiology and Behavior Social Sciences. Teaching at the Psychology faculty at Deusto University from 2011 to 2015. Teaching at the University of the Basque Country from 2015 to 2017. He gives lectures in corporations and schools about road accident prevention during the commute to work or while at work. Author of more than 30 scientific papers and more than 30 speeches at international congresses.  

Fernando Maniega Legarda

Fernando Maniega Legarda

Faculty of Health Sciences

Master in High Performance in Team Sports (Mastercede), Degree in Physical Education. Physical trainer and physical trainer in individual and collective professional sports. collective sports. Specialist in strength work applied to sports performance.

Fernando Portal María

Fernando Portal María

Faculty of Health Sciences

Degree in Medicine and Surgery. Teacher in vocational training cycles in the specialties of dietetics, clinical analysis and auxiliary nursing care. Tutor of training in work centers in companies in the health and food field. Coordinator of European ERASMUS projects.

Francesca Giampieri

Francesca Giampieri

Faculty of Health Sciences

PhD degree on “Food, Health and Drug”, Specialization in Food Science, she is currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia) and Professor of International Masters in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy). She is the author of about 150 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. In 2019 and 2020, she has been named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher and listed in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in Agricultural Science category. She has an extensive experience in field of biochemistry and nutrition, in the evaluation of the role of dietary bioactive compounds on human health, and in particular on the biological mechanisms related to oxidative stress and inflammation

Iñaki Elío Pascual

Iñaki Elío Pascual

Faculty of Health Sciences

Dietician-Nutricionist. Specialization in Management of Catering and Commercial Catering. Master's Degree in Nutrition and Metabolism. Academic Director of the Undergraduate in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Research in health, food, nutrition and metabolism. Hospital Nutrition expert.

Irene Doporto Josa

Irene Doporto Josa

Faculty of Health Sciences

Nutritionist with extensive experience in the sector. Graduate in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (European University of the Atlantic) and Master in Nutrition in Physical Activity and Sport from the Catholic University of Murcia. Nutritionist at the Marisma Wellness Center gym through the Colmun clinic. She has worked at Nut and Fit and Dorsia Clinics. She currently works at WM Clinics (Dorsia) and collaborates as a professor at the Universidad Europea del Atlántico.