Alberto Sánchez-Cano is graduated in Environmental Sciences by the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) and Master's Degree in Basic and Applied Research in Hunting Resources by UCLM.

He is currently a member of the Research Group in Health and Biotechnology (SaBio) of the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC – CSIC, UCLM, JCCM), where he enjoys a contract charged to the project "Avian influenza: detection, pathogenesis and epidemiology at the interface between wild and domestic species“.