2020 - currentPostdoctoral researcher (Juan de La Cierva-Formación fellow) in Brent Emerson´s Lab at Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Academic and professional trajectory
2018 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher in Anna Papadopoulou's Lab at University of Cyprus (UCY), funded by the "Island Biodiversity Genomics (iBioGen)" project, an European Union's Horizon 2020 project
2017 - 2018 Postdoctoral researcher - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain
2013 - 2017 PhD in Evolutionary Biology - Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC-CSIC), Spain PhD Thesis title: "Understanding the processes of diversification along the speciation continuum in a recent evolutionary radiation of grasshopper" {pdf}. Co-supervised by Joaquín Ortego and Pedro J. Cordero [PhD Thesis featured on Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, in French] {pdf}
2011 - 2013 Master (MSc) in Ecology - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Master Thesis title: "Winter habitat selection and partitioning in two simpatric farmland small mammals: Apodemus sylvaticus and Musspretus". Published in La Terre et Vie – Revue d’écologie, 70: 70-82. {pdf}
2004 - 2009Bachelor degree (BSc) in Biology - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Bachelor Thesis title: "Modeling the population dynamics of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) in Doñana: application to the harvesting strategies". Published in Journal of Fisheries Sciences, 13: 1-11. {pdf}
Research internships
2020 Post-doctoral training visit (3 weeks) in Alfried Vogler´s Lab Natural History Museum (NHM), London, UK
2019 Post-doctoral training visit (3 weeks, more information here) in Alfried Vogler´s Lab Natural History Museum (NHM), London, UK
2018 Post-doctoral training visit (6 weeks, more information here) in Brent Emerson's Lab Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC) Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
2016 Visiting research scholar (4 months) in Joaquín Ortego's Lab Department of Integrative Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Sevilla, Spain
2015 Visiting research scholar (3 months) in Lacey Knowles's Lab Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2014 Visiting research scholar (3 months) in Lacey Knowles's Lab Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Teaching experience
2020 Teaching assistant in the "Theory and practice in metabarcoding for biodiversity" workshop (7-13 January, online), organized by the iBioGen project funded under the Horizon 2020 Twinning scheme
2019 Teaching assistant in the "Analysis of metagenomic data for macroecology" workshop (2-8 October, Nicosia, Cyprus), organized bythe iBioGen project funded under the Horizon 2020 Twinning scheme
Research grant and awards
2019 Postdoctoral "Juan de La Cierva-formación" fellow. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain 2018 Postdoctoral FCT contract. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal - Awarded and declined 2018 Postdoctoral "Juan de La Cierva-formación" fellow. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain - Awarded and declined 2013 - 2016 FPI predoctoral fellowship. Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain