Álvaro Fernández Cardero

Álvaro Fernández Cardero holds a degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, 2019-2023). He also holds a degree in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM, 2015-2019). He has a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Applied Dietetics from UCM (2023-2024) and is currently a predoctoral student in the Pharmacy Doctoral Program at the same university. He works as a predoctoral researcher under an FPU 2023 contract (University Teaching Training Fellowship), linked to the GREENCOF project (PID2020-114102RB-I00) at the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Nutrition (ICTAN-CSIC).

Previously, he held a research position in the project “Evaluation of the Potential Antidiabetic Effect of Olive Pomace Oil,” funded by ORIVA (Interprofessional Association of Olive Pomace Oil), for six months. He was awarded a collaboration grant at UCLM (2018) and a JAE-Intro grant at CSIC (2023-2024). He has participated in five research projects, including one where he served as the principal investigator of a project funded by the UCM Student Observatory (2023). He has presented 14 posters and oral communications at national and international conferences and is the lead author of two publications in high-impact journals (Q1).

Álvaro earned second place in the XIII Scientific Outreach Competition organized by UCM-FECYT. He has organized outreach workshops at ICTAN’s Science Week and the Madrid is Science fair. Additionally, he has participated in three educational innovation projects and three Service-Learning projects at UCM. He supervised the external internship of a fourth-year Human Nutrition and Dietetics undergraduate student (2023-2024). Lastly, he has served as an evaluator for ANECA in the ACREDITA program, aimed at renewing accreditation for official bachelor’s and master’s degrees (2024).