Marià Alemany Lamana (Barcelona, ​​1946) has been professor of nutrition and biochemistry at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. He has been an emeritus professor since 2016.

Degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona (1968), where he also obtained a doctorate in Biological Sciences (1972) with the thesis " Algunos aspectos del metabolismo del glucógeno en el mejllón ("Mytilus edulis" L.) ". He did postdoctoral studies (1973-74) at Washington University in St. Louis, in the United States.

Professor at the University of Barcelona (1968-1977), University of the Balearic Islands (1977-1982), University of Barcelona in Tarragona (1982-1986) and once again at the University of Barcelona, ​​where he has been professor at the Faculty of Biology from 1986 until his retirement in 2016. He has also been assistant professor of Physiology (1974), associate (1977) and professor of Biochemistry (1981, 2012), Nutrition (2001).

He has published several technical, lexicographic, essay and dissemination books, as well as fiction.