Journal of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics

Director,

Universitat de les Illes Balears & CIBEROB,

Spain

Josep A. Tur is born in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain, 1957). He attained his degree in (1979) and PhD in (1983) in Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is designated as a Professor of Physiology at the University of the Balearics Islands (UIB), and designated as a director of Research Group on Community Nutrition and Oxidative Stress UIB & CIBEROBN (Physiopathology of Obesity & Nutrition) of Carlos III Institute of Health, and Department of Fundamental Biology and Health Sciences UIB. Academician: Catalonia’s Royal Academy of Pharmacy (2004) and Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Food Sciences (Founder, 2009). He is elected as a member of United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (2006), Governing Board of Balearic Islands College of Pharmacists and Scientific Committee of Food Board of the Council of Spanish Colleges of Pharmacists (2009), Balearic Islands’ Regional Food Security Council (2014), Scientific Committee of Spanish Agency of Consumption, Food Safety and Nutrition (Spanish Ministry of Health) (2015). He has been elected as a Declaration of the Mediterranean Diet as UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage of Humanity (2010).

Human Nutrition and Food Sciences