​As a Principal Investigator (PI), I run a research group at the Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnología de Cantabria (IBBTEC), called "Molecular motors in Nanobiotecnología" (https://web.unican.es/ibbtec/Paginas/Groups/Cabezon.aspx). I am also Deputy Director of the IBBTEC since 2016 and Professor at the University of Cantabria since 2009.

B.Sc & M.Sc in Biochemistry (Academic Achievement Award), Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Universidad de Cantabria (UC). In 1997, I joined John Walker´s group at the LMB (Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK), just a few months before he got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. I was supported by an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Marie Curie Research Grant during the first years and then I continued my work as a Research Associate, until 2002. My work was focused on the inhibitor protein of mitochondrial F-ATPase. In 2002, I came back to Spain as a group leader with a Ramón & Cajal contract and I became Associate Professor in 2005.  Since then, my work has been focused on molecular motors. I seek to understand their mechanism by using biochemical and structural approaches, with a special interest in recent advances in nanobiotechnology. In my scientific career, I have 32 publications, many of them in high impact scientific journals, such as Nature, EMBO Journal, PNAs, Nature Structural Biology, etc. as well as a patent. My research work has been funded by several Research Grants from public competitive calls and I have supervised six Ph.D students. As management tasks, I am a member of some international Committees, such as Faculty of 1000 and, in addition to the Deputy Direction of the IBBTEC, I have also been selected as a member of several committees at the UC, such as The  University Research Committee, The Doctoral Program Committee or The PhD Awards Committee.