Professor Francisco J. Planes is principal investigator in the Computational Biology group at the School of Engineering of University of Navarra, Tecnun. His research has focused on the development of new algorithms, mainly based on optimization and statistical techniques, for the analysis of molecular networks in the context of high-thorughput technologies (“omics” data), with varied applications, but mainly in cancer and personalized nutrition. He has participated in 15 research projects related with metabolism and health, in order to identify novel therapeutic strategies and biomarkers. He has published more than 40 scientific articles in high-impact journals, such as Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology or Bioinformatics.