Staff directory

Biological and ecological studies of large marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, chelonian, cetacean and pinniped) focused on management and conservation of populations.

L’objectiu de la meva feina és millorar el seguiment de la biodiversitat i avaluar l’impacte del canvi global sobre la resiliència i la diversitat funcional del coral·ligen mediterrani. Per fer-ho, aplic tècniques d’intel·ligència artificial per automatitzar la identificació d'espècies i l’anàlisi de comunitats a partir d’imatges submarines.

Dr. Laura Armengot is a biologist, with a PhD in agroecology. Her main expertise is in the field of sustainable agricultural practices, including organic farming and agroforestry systems. She has worked in Mediterranean, temperate and tropical regions developing and assessing innovative management strategies for organic farmers in topics such as weed control, carbon sequestration and efficient use of resources.

The two main areas of my research are marine chemical ecology (natural products benthic invertebrates temperate, tropical and polar) and integrated coastal zone management (use of benthic invertebrates as indicators of environmental conditions in coastal management processes).

I am currently working at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC) and the University of Barcelona (UB). My research is focused on the effect of ocean acidification on Antarctic marine calcifiers.

During my early career, as graduated in Marine Biology and a master in Marine Ecology, I have mainly studied how environmental variability modulates biochemical and reproductive adaptations in different species of marine invertebrates. Furthermore, I am currently conducting my PhD thesis about potential effects of glacial melt and retreat on different ecological characteristics of Antarctic marine benthic communities.

Conservation biology of plants, with special emphasis on the biology of small populations of endemic species and subjected to fragmentation processes in the Mediterranean region (demography, reproductive biology, population genetics). Databases of genetic biodiversity. Pharmaceutical botany.

I am an Associate Professor 'Serra Húnter' at the University of Barcelona and the lead of the Freshwater Ecology, Hydrology and Management (FEHM-Lab) research group. My research interests mainly focus on the biodiversity, ecology, and conservation of freshwater ecosystems. In particular, I have been working on large-scale spatial patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrates mediterranean climate rivers and their responses to past, present, and future disturbances, combining community and population approaches. I have conducted my research mainly on of the world, where intermittent rivers are part of the daily landscape and have triggered many evolutionary adaptations of species.

Biological and ecological studies of large marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, chelonian, cetacean and pinniped) focused on management and conservation of populations.

Reproductive biology of plants, with special attention to the tribe Delphinieae. Conservation biology (reproductive biology, genetic diversity and population) of endemic plants, endangered and/or rare in the Mediterranean region.

I study the habitat use of marine mammals and sea turtles in different ecosystems, using oxygen and sulphur stable isotopes as intrinsic habitat tracers.

My research aims to better understand the resilience of species to global change in order to develop effective management and conservation tools. To do this, I combine the use of small-scale experiments, field data, large-scale data, along with a wide variety of modeling techniques, to better understand, predict and manage their dynamics and promote their resilience.

My research falls within the fields of animal biology, biodiversity conservation, and zoogeography. My main objective is to understand the spatio-temporal distribution patterns of animals and the mechanisms that drive them, considering extrinsic and intrinsic factors such as life strategy or behavior. The ultimate goal is to improve the ability to predict their responses to environmental changes. I focus particularly on the study of birds and biological invasions.

Biological and ecological studies of large marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, chelonian, cetacean and pinniped) focused on management and conservation of populations.

Conservation of biodiversity - Ecology of communities - Ecology of populations - Forest ecology - Management and restoration of the natural environment

Fire ecology, landscape ecology, soil-plant relationships, restoration ecology (of ecosystems affected by forest fires) and combined use of geospatial technologies (GIS, remote sensing) with ecological modelling.

Trying to understand the biological buffer systems of marine invertebrates that calcify to cope with the rapid environmental changes expected in the predicted global ocean acidification and warming scenario by applying genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics, along with metabolic ecology.

Research areas: Biogeography - Cartography and biodiversity databases - Conservation of Biodiversity
Interest groups: Plant communities - Habitats - Vascular plants
Research Group: Geobotànica i Cartografia de la Vegetació (GEOVEG)

Study of the Mediterranean habitat-forming marine species populations under the global warming effects, and engage citizen science to produce new knowledge for science and society.

I am a lecturer at the University of Barcelona, specialized in cryptogamic botany, with over twenty years of experience studying macrophytes and diatoms in aquatic ecosystems. My research focuses on taxonomy, ecology, and the design and revision of biological indices to assess the ecological status of rivers, lakes, and wetlands, contributing to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). In parallel, I actively participate in knowledge transfer projects and environmental volunteering initiatives.

Charmed with marine biology, currently I'm studying the adaptive processes of the invasive species Styela plicata. From the reference genome construction to the bacterial community structure, we want to see how this species is available to colonize new habitats.