Manuel Jimenez

Summary

Manuel Jiménez López received his Ph.D. in the Department of Human Physiology, Histology, Pathological Anatomy, and Physical and Sports Education of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga (Spain) in 2011. Since 2012 he has been part of the International University of La Rioja (Spain) faculty. He received the "Dr. Fernández Pastor" for the best research in Sports Medicine in 2012 and was a finalist for this same award in 2013. As a researcher, he joined the "Research in Sports Science" group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga, and the group research CTS-132 of the University of Malaga. He was the lead researcher in the TECNODEF-UNIR group from 2019 to 2023 and an honorary collaborating researcher in the Department of Basic Psychology and Language Sciences of the University College of London in 2019. Honorary collaborating professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga between 2009 and 2023. He has been invited as Key Speaker at the North American Symposium on Saliva Diagnostics in 2018, 2019, and 2020, at the Saliva Diagnostic Symposium of India in 2021 and 2022. He is an expert in saliva diagnostic techniques applied to performance control in professional sports, working with professional teams in football, cycling, athletics, badminton, judo, hockey, and basketball. He specializes in allostatic load, stress, psychophysical development, social neuroendocrinology, obesity, and affective neuroscience. As a teacher, he has taught classes on research methodology and clinical documentation, psychophysical development at school age, physical education, health, biomedical assessment of athlete performance, and anatomical bases of the human body. Currently, he is investigating salivary proteomics as a diagnostic method in neurodegenerative pathologies and the impact of stress on physical and mental health.

Animal Behavior Diabetes & Endocrinology Metabolic Sciences Neuroscience Obesity Sports Injury Sports Medicine