Xavier Valldeperas is associate professor of Ophthalmology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) where he obtained his PhD in 2004 with Cum Laude award. He obtained his vitreoretinal Fellowship in the United Kingdom, in the Oxford Eye Hospital and in the Royal Liverpool Hospital. He is a vitreoretinal consultant in Barcelona since 2005. He has authored 42 papers in indexed journals and has been director of 6 PhD projects. He has collaborated as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals.