First person – Juan Garrido-Maraver

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Juan Garrido-Maraver is first author on ‘Forcing contacts between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum extends lifespan in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease’, published in BiO. Juan conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral scientist in L. Miguel Martins's lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, Leicester, UK. He is now a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Álvaro A. Tavares at the Centre for Biomedical Research (CBMR), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, investigating molecular mechanisms linked to human diseases from a therapeutic point of view.