Jordi de Batlle

Jordi de Batlle holds a PhD in Health and Life Sciences (Epidemiology) by the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain). Currently, he is a senior research fellow in the Group of Translational Research in Respiratory Medicine (TRRM), at the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida). In 2016, he assumed the co-leadership of the WP2 of the EU project CONNECARE (H2020). He is currently participating in several projects of the TRRM (ISAACC, BIG DATA, and ESCA, among others). Since 2016 he is benefiting a research contract from the Catalan government: Pla estratègic de recerca i innovació en salut 2016-2020 (PERIS-2016). During his career he has been granted two European Commission FP7 Marie Curie – COFUND grants. The first, to conduct a 2-year post-doc in the Nutritional Epidemiology section of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO), Lyon, France (2012-2014), focusing on the relationship between vegetal nutrients and breast cancer, as well as the effects of meat products on colorectal cancer. The second, to conduct a 2-year post-doc in the TRRM group, focusing on the management of patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnoea in primary care units compared to sleep units. During his Ph.D. in the Centre for Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) 2004-2011, he studied the measure and effect of diet in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His current research interests are on chronic respiratory diseases, sleep apnoea, nutritional epidemiology, community-based management of chronic diseases and big data. In this sense, he has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals, including first authorship of articles in the most prestigious journals on the fields he has worked (Am J Respir Crit Care Med, J Natl Cancer Inst, Eur J Nutr, and Allergy).