​Juan Manuel Medina Méndez holds a degree in Biotechnology from the University of León (2016). During his undergraduate studies, he worked as a research associate in the Departments of Immunopathology at IDIVAL (Santander) and Animal Physiology at INDEGSAL (León), where he specialized in cell culture techniques applied to transplantation and in the pharmacodynamics of veterinary antiparasitic drugs. In 2018, he obtained a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen. During his time in Denmark, he worked as a software developer at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and later as a bioinformatician in the Human Genomics group at the Faculty of Medicine in Copenhagen, focusing on the study of structural variants associated with cognitive disorders using exome and RNA-seq data. His Master's thesis, carried out in the Molecular Microbiology group at the same university, focused on the analysis of antibiotic resistance genes in microbial communities through metagenomic data and plasmid-host interaction data obtained via Hi-C technology. In 2019, he returned to Spain to work as a bioinformatician at IdISBa (Palma de Mallorca), where he specialized in the detection of structural variants and SNPs associated with congenital heart diseases. Since 2020, he has been pursuing his PhD at the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC), University of Cantabria, focusing on the metagenomic analysis of metabolic genes in clinical and environmental microbiomes, with special emphasis on their relationship with digestive diseases and the dissemination of conjugative plasmids. His thesis is supervised by Drs. Javier Crespo and Fernando de la Cruz.​