I was born in Ourense, a city in the north-west of Spain. Since the beginning I would become a physician, I do not why (here is not such good bussines like in America). I got my MD in 1990 at the University of Santiago Compostela, Spain. During my studies I realize that I was very interested in to understnad how the nervous system works. For this reason I decided to become a neurologist and work in clinics and basic research. I made my Residency in Neurology from 1992-1995 in Barcelona (Hospital Valle de Hebron, Barcelona, Spain) and I worked in the lab analyzing the animal model of an autoimmune disease such as Multiple Sclerosis. I got my PhD in 1996 focused in the field of Neuroimmunology and Autoimmune diseases at the University Autonomous of Barcelona. After that I decided to continous making basic research in neuroimmunological diseases and for this reason I moved to the University of California, San Francisco since 1996 to 1997 as a postdoctoral fellow. I have a very good time there and I had the opportunity to be very focus in the celular and molecular aspects of neuroimmunological dieases. After that I worked at the Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Hospital Valle de Hebron (1998-2000). Since 2001, I am working at the Department of Neurology at the University of Navarra, where I am working sharing clinical and research work and focused in neuroimmunology and autoimmune diseases. In the past years I moved from the immunological to the genetic analysis of autoimmune diseases. But recently I decided to be focus in the analysis of gene expression patterns of the immune response in several models of autoimmune demyelination, involving the use of human and animal samples. Large gene expression data sets will be used for modeling and reconstruction of underlying genetic regulatory networks. After being working for a while under the paradigm of molecular biology, I think that I need to try to understand autoimmune diseases from a more global and system point of view, tryin to reach all its complexity.