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Dr Rosa M. Casas has been a CIBER researcher since 2007, taking on the role of postdoctoral researcher in June 2016. She is currently a laboratory leader in the Cardiovascular Risk, Nutrition and Healthy Aging group at IDIBAPS, a consolidated research group (2021 SGR 01194) led by Dr Ramon Estruch. She has also been an associate lecturer at the University of Barcelona since 2017, and since 2019 she has been the co-coordinator of the official Master's programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nutrition, Chronic Diseases, and Healthy Aging. She has authored more than 145 original articles in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Circulation Research, J Nutr, Am J Clin Nutr, NEMJ, Diabetes Care, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, among others. She has also written four book chapters for which she is corresponding author. Dr Casas has played a key role in the coordination of national intervention studies focusing on dietary and lifestyle modification, including the IMPACT study (involving 1,200 pregnant women with intrauterine growth retardation), the PREDIMED study (involving 7,447 participants at high cardiovascular risk with a 5-year follow-up) and the PREDIMED- PLUS study (involving 6,874 participants with metabolic syndrome with a 6-year follow- up). She is currently coordinating the DAO project (investigating the efficacy of a low histamine diet and/or DAO enzyme supplementation in the management of symptoms associated with histamine intolerance due to DAO deficiency in 400 individuals) and subproject 1 of the European FoodPhyt project (HDHLINTIMIC). She is currently leading the PEANUTY Study assessing the effects of regular peanuty consumption on the neurocognitive skills of 200 healthy Spanish adolescents. She is leader of ECS (Early Career Scientists) in the FoodPhyt Project (JPI-HDHL). Also, she has international collaborations through NIH grants. Furthermore, in the last 5 years, Dr. Casas has supervised more than 14 master’s final projects (national and international), from various universities (University of Barcelona, Rovira i Virgili, Castilla León, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Canada), culminating some of them in publications in first quartile journals. To date, Dr. Casas has supervised 2 PhD Dissertations and currently, she is co-directing two PhD Dissertations more. In addition, she holds memberships in several scientific committees and entities, including her role as the ECS representative since November 2022, Scientific Coordinator of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation since 2019, PI of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation group in CCNIEC since 2019, participation in the Steering Committee for the IMPACT project, membership in the advisory board for the +AGIL project, and membership in SEÑ. She is currently leading the PEANUTY study, which is investigating the effects of regular peanut consumption on neurocognitive performance in 200 healthy Spanish adolescents. She is the ECS (Early Career Scientists) leader in the FoodPhyt project (JPI-HDHL). She also has international collaborations through NIH grants. Furthermore, in the last 5 years, Dr Casas has supervised more than 14 Master's theses (national and international) from different universities (University of Barcelona, Rovira i Virgili, Castilla León, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Canada), some of which have resulted in publications in first-quarter journals. To date, Dr Casas has supervised 2 doctoral theses and is currently co-directing two more. In addition, she is a member of several scientific committees and entities, including her role as ECS representative since November 2022, scientific coordinator of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation since 2019, PI of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation group in CCNIEC since 2019, participation in the steering committee of the IMPACT project, member of the advisory board of the +AGIL project and member of SEÑ.