Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Vicente Rodríguez, Germán
Department: Departamento de Fisiatría y Enfermería
Field: Educación Física y Deportiva
Faculty: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y del Deporte

Instituto: INSTITUTO AGROALIMENTARIO DE ARAGÓN (IA2)
Group: S72_23R: EXER-GENUD

UNESCO codes
  • Fisiología del ejercicio

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI. 16/06/25
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/25
  • CNEAI. 11/06/19
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/19
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/13
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/12
Academic position: Cated. Universidad

Academic position
  • Director de Secretariado de Estudios de Grado
Email: gervicen@unizar.es
ORCID number: 0000-0002-4303-4097

Research interests
  • Fisiología de los deportes
  • El proceso de envejecimiento
  • Prevención y promoción de la salud
  • Educación y desarrollo humano
  • Educación física y deporte

University degrees
  • Master en Psicologia de la Actividad Fisica y del Deporte. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. 2003
  • Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. 2000
  • Magisterio Especialidad Educación física. Universidad de Oviedo. 1997

PhDs
  • Dr. por la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. 2005

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In 2000 I obtained an FPU predoctoral fellowship and completed an international PhD at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. My postdoctoral training took place in leading centres such as the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre and the Preventive Nutrition Unit at Karolinska Institutet, where I specialised in exercise physiology and body composition across the life course. I am currently Full Professor of Physical Activity and Health at the University of Zaragoza, co-PI of the GENUD/EXER-GENUD group and researcher at the IA2 Institute and at CIBEROBN (ISCIII). I have coordinated the PhD Programme in Health and Sport Sciences, chaired the Doctoral Commission and served as Dean of the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences for eight years.

I am principal investigator of the EXERNET-Elder cohort, a multicentre longitudinal study on exercise, ageing and health in older adults, with competitive funding since 2008. I also chair the EXERNET Network for research in exercise and health, which brings together around 200 researchers from 28 groups in 22 universities. Using EXERNET-Elder and associated projects, we have described reference values for physical fitness and body composition, the prevalence and determinants of frailty and sarcopenia, and functional trajectories related to mortality. More recently, we have shown that multicomponent training can reverse frailty, improve physical and cognitive function and be cost-effective in older adults with reduced functional capacity, providing evidence useful for planning health and social care services.

In parallel, I have led a research line on biomarkers of sarcopenia and healthy ageing in collaboration with biotechnology groups. We have identified proteins in extracellular vesicles (PF4, C1R) and lncRNAs (NEAT1, PVT1, H19) as biomarkers of diagnosis and treatment response, leading to a patent on protein biomarkers. These omics approaches are integrated with functional and clinical data to advance precision-medicine models in frailty, obesity and type 2 diabetes, which is the framework of the PROTECT2D project. I am also a co-author of the Spanish GIRO guideline of SEEDO for the management of obesity in adults.

My research activity is accompanied by sustained work in training and leadership. I have supervised 22 PhD theses, many with cum laude distinction and Extraordinary Award; a substantial proportion of these doctoral graduates now hold permanent positions at universities, in industrial R&D or in the Spanish National Health System. I am author or co-author of more than 275 JCR articles, with over 11,000 citations (h-index 56, Scopus), and I rank among the most cited Spanish researchers and those with greatest impact in Sport Sciences. I serve as Section Editor for World Journal of Pediatrics and Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. I have led nine OTRI contracts and agreements with public administrations and other organisations to design and implement exercise programmes in older adults and populations at metabolic risk. My goals are to consolidate cohorts and trials such as EXERNET-Elder and PROTECT2D, integrating exercise and nutrition interventions with biomarkers and cost-effectiveness models to generate stratification tools and guidelines that facilitate personalised and socially sustainable medicine in ageing, obesity and diabetes.

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