Fernando G. Benavides is full professor and senior researcher of Center for Research in Occupational Health (CiSAL) at University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and Director of the Master of Public Health (UPF-UAB). Since 2010 he has been serving as Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health (Houston). From 1998 to 2005 he served as Editor-in-chief, and founder, of the peer-review Journal "Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales". His research aims to improve worker health, evaluating the impact of preventive programs in the workplace, and informing health policy priorities (http://www.upf.edu/cisal/en/). He has a large experience on occupational and environmental epidemiology, and has participated in numerous national and international studies with a main focus on labour market trajectories (Continuous Working Life Sample), flexi-security trends, the labor market and the welfare state, sickness absence, occupational musculoskeletal health, return to work policies and workability. He is currently involved in a study analyzing a dynamic perspective of the labour trajectories using using the latent growth modeling approach. He has served as the President of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) between 2009 and 2014. Since 2009 he serves as a consultant for the Argentina Working Conditions Survey of the Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo Argentina Working Conditions Survey, and he has been involved in numerous Research Projects, including: the Central American Survey of Working Conditions and Health (ECCTS); Cultural and Psychosocial influences on Disability (CUPID); Immigration, Work and Health (ITSAL) II; Spanish Job Exposure Matrix (MatEmESp) and the EU funded E-Capacit8 project or EU COST action Researcher Mental Health (ReMO). Currently, he is Scientific Director of the Ibero American Observatory of Occupational Safety and Health.