Anabel Fernández obtained her PhD in Biochemistry-Nutirion & Metabolism in 2013 with 10 published manuscripts as first author and as collaborator. During the PhD studies she performed a short stay in the faculty of medicine in King’s College of London.

Nowadays and since 2015 she is part of the Liver Vascular Biology Research Group (LVBRG) at IDIBAPS, Barcelona. In 2015 and during 3 years she peformed her Postdoctoral formation in the Sara Borrell-ISCIII program and now she is a Researcher of the CIBEREHD program. She is involved in several projects of the group that are focused in the study of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) and microvascular dysfunction in chronic liver diseases (CLD), such as cirrhosis. Moreover, in 2018 she obtained national funding to investigate the role of miRNAs in LSECs capillarization in CLD. As a result of her postdoctoral work, she has published 16 manuscripts as first author or as collaborator in top-rated journals, as well as several reviews on portal hypertension and cirrhosis. Moreover, she is part of the Frontiers Community as review editor in Gastroenterology, part of the Frontiers of Medicine journal, and also she is peer-reviewer of several international journals in the field of hepatology.