María D. Navarro-Hortal is PhD in Human Nutrition and Food Technology by the University of Granada, Spain. During the PhD, she has been working in the evaluation of foods and food by-products on aging and age-related diseases using the experimental model Caenorhabditis elegans. In that period, she did a three-month international internship in the Bioenergetic Lab on Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy. Furthermore, she developed teaching in the physiology department of the University of Granada. She has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters and has participated in numerous research conferences. The current research line addresses aging and associated diseases (cancer, neurodegenerative, cardiovascular) in relation to the role of diet, redox biology and mitochondria.