ExpertiseUpdated on 29 June 2026

Exercise physiology, metabolic health and biomarkers

Associate Professor / Principal Investigator at Universidad de Cádiz

CADIZ, Spain

About

The Exercise Physiology Research Group (ExPhy, CTS-1120) at the University of Cádiz / INiBICA offers expertise for MSCA Doctoral Networks focused on exercise, lifestyle interventions, metabolic health, obesity, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk.

Our group integrates human exercise intervention trials with physiological, metabolic and molecular phenotyping. We have experience in supervised exercise training programmes, including HIIT and MICT, dietary assessment, indirect calorimetry, maximal fat oxidation, cardiopulmonary fitness, DXA-derived body composition, OGTT-derived metabolic indices, insulin sensitivity, skeletal muscle biopsies, plasma/serum biobanking, miRNAs, extracellular vesicles, proteomics, gut microbiota and mitochondrial function.

We are interested in joining consortia addressing exercise as medicine, precision lifestyle interventions, metabolic flexibility, obesity and diabetes prevention or treatment, microbiome-host interactions, skeletal muscle adaptation, biomarkers of exercise response, ageing and cardiometabolic health.

We can contribute to doctoral training through expertise in human exercise trials, physiological testing, metabolic phenotyping, biomarker analysis, multi-omics interpretation, scientific writing, supervision and international/intersectoral research training.

Field

  • V4-Applied Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology
  • L1-Molecular and Structural Biology
  • L2-Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
  • L3-Cellular and Developmental Biology
  • L4-Physiology, Pathophysiology and Endocrinology
  • L7-Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health

Organisation

Universidad de Cádiz

University

Cadiz, Spain

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