Empar Lurbe (EL) is a Full Professor at the University of Valencia and this position is linked to her role as Head of the Paediatrics Department at the Hospital General Valencia where she will carry out all the clinical activity. The scientific and research trajectory of EL has allowed the consolidation of numerous working relationships with research groups of excellence, both at the international and national level. Prof Lurbe has been awarded with the Talal Zein Award of the European Society of Hypertension (Milan 2011) distinguishing a scientist in recognition of their outstanding work related to hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. The Italian Society of Hypertension named her honorary member in 2015, the Spanish Society of Hypertension in 2016 and the Hungarian Society of Hypertension in 2018. She is currently the vice president of the European Society of Hypertension (2017 - present) and Chair of the Working Group on Hypertension in Children and Adolescents (2015-present) in this Society. She furthermore acted as a coordinator of Scientific Committees for R&D at Institute of Health Carlos III, Spain (2013-2018). An important achievement was the successful application of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action “Network for blood pressure research in children and adolescents”, HyperChildNET, Number CA19115 in 2019. Empar Lurbe has published a large number of papers with high clinical relevance, being the coordinator of the first European Society of Hypertension Guidelines in Children and Adolescents in 2009 with more than 400 citations and its update in 2016. A publication in the New England Journal of Medicine about the prognostic value of nocturnal blood pressure on the development of nephropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes. With more than 400 citations, this seminal paper has contributed to change the clinical guidelines.