Staff directory

PhD student in the field of evolutionary genetics and genomics. We use spiders of the genus Dysdera as a model organism to understand evolutionary mechanisms that have allowed adaptation to the Canary Islands.

I am a Biological Systems Engineer with a master's degree in Oceanography and Management of the Marine Environment. I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation based on the study of the effect of climate change on Antarctic marine invertebrates and their population genetics.

I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), which included an exchange program at the San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ) (Ecuador), and a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Development from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). For the last four years I have been involved in assessing the accountability of petroleum corporations regarding environmental liabilities and their effect on the environment in the Peruvian context. I am currently working on updating an integrated spatial assessment model that constructs the first global atlas of unburnable oil resources and also working on the operationalisation of social and equity criteria in leaving fossil fuels underground. My various contributions have been approached from interdisciplinary methodologies, including geographical information systems, literature reviews, environmental forensics, and community-based monitoring systems.

My main research line focuses on specialization and structuring as resilience modulators of large cetacean populations. Specifically, I am studying the potential drivers of fin whales baleen plates isotopic variation in the North Atlantic, such as climate cycles and reproductive stage.

My doctoral dissertation focuses on the analysis of the state of knowledge of aquatic insects in the Iberian Peninsula, detecting areas that may harbor unknown diversity, as well as identifying the species most vulnerable to global change and proposing priority areas for their conservation.

My field of study is palaeoentomology. I am working on fossilized hematophagous arthropods, especially in Cretaceous Amber. I also like to make cgi reconstructions of the extinct arthropods I study."

My research is focused in the study of the conservation status of the white gorgonian, Eunicella singularis, the only mixotroph gorgonian in the Mediterranean Sea. The main objective is to understand how the species responds to global change and to evaluate if any advantages exist in symbiotic species under global change in temperate seas using ecological, population, genetic, reproductive and ecophysiological approaches.

My research focuses on biological and behavioral studies on freshwater fish.

Planarian Diversity and Evolution lab
Currently studying the effect of asexual reproduction in the evolutionary history of freshwater planarians and the genetic consequences of asexuality.

Tracking historical changes in the trophic ecology of green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Hawaiian islands

After a year as a tresearch assistant, I begin my doctoral thesis on migratory connectivity, seasonal interactions and carry-over effects on Atlantic seabirds.

Doctoral thesis on the protective mechanisms against severe drought stress in non-model plants, both C3 (Olea Europaea L) and CAM (Sempervivum tectorum L.) species, specially focusing on jasmonates.

My research aims to reduce the uncertainty on the future viability of coralligenous assemblages, by integrating the responses to climate change of the main habitat-forming species and of the coralligenous functioning