Now

What I’m Doing Now

Last updated: August 2026

This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers, describing what I’m currently focused on.

Current Focus

Research

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, CNIO, working on pancreatic and bladder cancer.

Learning

Máster de Formación Permanente en Salud Pública (UNED / ENS-ISCIII).
PG Certificate in Public Health (LSHTM).
Practical Epidemiology (EPM103), Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (EPM202) and Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (EPM304), taken standalone at LSHTM.
Graduate Certificate in Theoretical Statistics and Probability (OU).
Máster en Economía de la Salud y del Medicamento (UPF-BSM).
Máster universitario de Análisis Económico (UOC).
Máster en Análisis de las Desigualdades Sociales (UNED).

Reading

Epidemiology

Kenneth J. Rothman, Krista F. Huybrechts, Eleanor J. Murray

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie • 288 pages

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Understanding the Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Victor J. Schoenbach, Wayne D. Rosamond • 572 pages

Statistical Models in Epidemiology

David Clayton, Michael Hills • 376 pages

Causal Inference

Miquel A. Hernan, James M. Robins • 352 pages

No cover

The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers, Second Edition

Unknown

Concepts of Epidemiology: An integrated introduction to the ideas, theories, principles and methods of epidemiology

Raj Bhopal • 317 pages

Writing science

Joshua Schimel • 240 pages

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Modern Epidemiology

Timothy L. Lash, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Sebastien Haneause, Kenneth Rothman • 1250 pages

Recent Accomplishments

Finished the Diploma de Experto Universitario en Métodos Avanzados de Estadística Aplicada (UNED), awaiting final results.
Held a postdoctoral fellowship on the cancer genomics of vulvar and penile squamous cell carcinoma (Rakislova Lab, ISGlobal).
Completed my PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra — submitted September 2025, defended December 2025.

Side Projects

etverse — an R ecosystem for transparent causal inference.

causatr: causal effects estimation.
negatr: negative control analysis.
matchatr: (matched) case-control and case-cohort study analysis.
survatr: survival analysis.

Standalone R packages

forrest: publication-ready forest plots.
orcidtr: ORCID public API client.

Writing and tooling

bibaudit: field-level verification of bibliographies against Crossref, DataCite, PubMed and Open Library.
paper-template: a paper written in Markdown, built into a submission-ready DOCX, a Typst PDF and a journal bundle.
manuscript-engine: the Pandoc filters and build machinery behind paper-template, pinned into each paper as a submodule.

Want to know what I was doing before? Check out the blog for updates and reflections.

--- title: "Now" page-layout: full --- ```{r} #| echo: false #| output: asis #| warning: false #| message: false # Load Hardcover API functions source("scripts/hardcover.R") # Load config (create _hardcover_config.R from the example file) if (file.exists("_hardcover_config.R")) { source("_hardcover_config.R") # Fetch currently reading books tryCatch({ books <- get_currently_reading(HARDCOVER_API_TOKEN, HARDCOVER_USER_ID) cat("") # Placeholder for inline display below }, error = function(e) { cat("") # Silent fail, will show placeholder text }) } else { cat("") # No config file, show placeholder } ``` # What I'm Doing Now ```{r} #| echo: false #| output: asis #| warning: false #| message: false source("scripts/last_updated.R") cat(sprintf("*Last updated: %s*\n", last_updated("now.qmd"))) ``` This is a [now page](https://nownownow.com/about), inspired by Derek Sivers, describing what I'm currently focused on. ## Current Focus ### Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, CNIO, working on pancreatic and bladder cancer. ### Learning - Máster de Formación Permanente en Salud Pública (UNED / ENS-ISCIII). - PG Certificate in Public Health (LSHTM). - Practical Epidemiology (EPM103), Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (EPM202) and Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (EPM304), taken standalone at LSHTM. - Graduate Certificate in Theoretical Statistics and Probability (OU). - Máster en Economía de la Salud y del Medicamento (UPF-BSM). - Máster universitario de Análisis Económico (UOC). - Máster en Análisis de las Desigualdades Sociales (UNED). ### Reading ```{r} #| echo: false #| output: asis #| warning: false #| message: false # Display currently reading books if (exists("books") && !is.null(books) && nrow(books) > 0) { knitr::asis_output(display_books_html(books)) } else { "- Reading: [Book Title] by [Author]\n" } ``` ## Recent Accomplishments - Finished the Diploma de Experto Universitario en Métodos Avanzados de Estadística Aplicada (UNED), awaiting final results. - Held a postdoctoral fellowship on the cancer genomics of vulvar and penile squamous cell carcinoma (Rakislova Lab, ISGlobal). - Completed my PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra — submitted September 2025, defended December 2025. ## Side Projects **[etverse](https://etverse.github.io/)** — an R ecosystem for transparent causal inference. - [`causatr`](https://github.com/etverse/causatr): causal effects estimation. - [`negatr`](https://github.com/etverse/negatr): negative control analysis. - [`matchatr`](https://github.com/etverse/matchatr): (matched) case-control and case-cohort study analysis. - [`survatr`](https://github.com/etverse/survatr): survival analysis. **Standalone R packages** - [`forrest`](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri/forrest): publication-ready forest plots. - [`orcidtr`](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri/orcidtr): ORCID public API client. **Writing and tooling** - [`bibaudit`](https://lorenzofabbri.github.io/bibaudit/): field-level verification of bibliographies against Crossref, DataCite, PubMed and Open Library. - [`paper-template`](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri/paper-template): a paper written in Markdown, built into a submission-ready DOCX, a Typst PDF and a journal bundle. - [`manuscript-engine`](https://github.com/lorenzoFabbri/manuscript-engine): the Pandoc filters and build machinery behind `paper-template`, pinned into each paper as a submodule. --- *Want to know what I was doing before? Check out the [blog](blog.qmd) for updates and reflections.*