Gemma Chiva

Associate Professor, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona; Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona; and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.

PhD. in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (UB, Extraordinary Award 2012-213), Master in Food Development and Innovation (UB), Degree in Food Science and Technology (UB), and Diploma in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Her research activity is focused on the search for new biomarkers of atherosclerosis, thrombosis and cardiovascular risk, and how certain dietary components influence cardiovascular risk through the modulation these biomarkers. She is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), where she participates in different working groups. She has published more than 65 articles indexed in pubmed, with more than 3500 citations (H-index 34).