Dr. Alejandro González Álvarez holds a degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (graduating summa cum laude and receiving the Extraordinary Doctorate Award). He has held postdoctoral researcher positions at prestigious national and international institutions, including the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden (Dr. Patrik Ernfors Lab); the Sensory Transduction and Nociception Group at the UMH-CSIC Institute of Neurosciences in Spain ((Dr. Félix Viana and Dra. Ana Gomis Lab); the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom (Dr. Patrik Rorsman Lab); and the Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Santiago in Chile (Dr. Rodolfo Madrid Lab). He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology at the University of Alicante. His research has focused on unravelling the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying sensory perception, pain transduction, and neuronal plasticity. As both a principal investigator and collaborator, he has contributed to numerous projects exploring topics such as the role of nociceptors in corneal sensory disorders, the structure-function relationship of thermosensitive TRPM8 channels, the effects of analgesics on nociceptive neurons, and the involvement of ion channels in pain, mechanosensitivity, and thermoregulation. He authorises numerous publications in prestigious international scientific journals such as the Journal of Neuroscience, Cell Metabolism, and Brain. Additionally, he has participated as a speaker at over 35 national and international conferences.