Juan R. Ordoñana

Juan R. Ordoñana, PhD is a professor of Behavior Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology at University of Murcia (Spain). Prof Ordoñana graduated in Psychology from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 1984. After a granted research stay in the US, he became a public health specialist for the Murcia Health Council, working in the areas of health promotion and epidemiological research. He completed his PhD at the University of Murcia in 1997, and started his academic career in 2000 becoming a full-time professor at UM. Since then, he has been a member of the Psychobiology and Neurobiology of Behavior research group at UM. He is also linked as a researcher to the Murcia Institute of Biomedical Research (IMIB-Arrixaca), in the line of Behavioral Psychobiology. His research interests focus in the convergence between psychobiology and public health. He launched the Murcia Twin Registry (www.um.es/registrogemelos) in 2007, which is the only population-based twin registry in Spain, so far. Within this research frame he has published over 60 research papers and coordinated as PI research projects, focusing on the genetic and environmental structure of phenotypes like, depression, obesity, breastfeeding, pain, psychoactive medication use, circadian health or health-related quality of life.