Javier was born in Caceres, Spain, and is currently working as a psychiatrist in London, UK. He obtained his medical qualification from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, doing one year abroad at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He did the training in Psychiatry at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid, with a special interest in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. At the end of his training, he did a placement in the early intervention program for psychosis at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In 2020, he was awarded a Fundación Alicia Koplowitz two-years Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London, where he works as Clinical Research Fellow and has clinical, research and educational roles. He is currently working as an honorary psychiatrist for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust and has worked in different Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. He has completed different specific courses for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is trained in Autism Diagnostic Observational Schedule-2 (ADOS-2) and Autism Diagnostic Interview Revised (ADI-R). He is currently working on an epidemiological study of eating disorders in children and young people in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He is also involved in education and actively supervises students from Imperial College London with their research projects and has collaborated as a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and in the BSc Neuroscience and Mental Health course at the Imperial College.