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CURRICULUM VITAE

"Investment in knowledge pays the best interest"

- Benjamin Franklin -

Main research projects

  • Healing Phylogenies: eco-phylogenetic approaches for preserving, prospecting, and understanding the medicinal potential of plant biodiversity. 2023 - 2026. PI: Rafael Molina Venegas. Budget: 125000 euros.

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  • United we persist: Causes and consequences of the associations of rare species to unravel their persistence in biological communities. 2021 - 2024. PI: Joaquín Calatayud. Budget: 135000 euros.

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  • Plant evolutionary history and human well-being in a changing world; assessing theoretical foundations using empirical evidence and new phylogenetic tools. 2020 - 2022. PI: Rafael Molina Venegas. Budget: 39660.40 euros.    

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  • Bioregionalization, graph theory and simulated worlds: revisiting foundational goals of biogeography using 21stcentury tools. 2018 - 2022. PI: Miguel Á. Rodríguez. Budget: 133100 euros.

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  • Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change: linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes. 2017 - 2019. PI: Markus Fischer.

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  • Identifying habitat fragmentation sensitivity syndromes in Holartic plants and birds. 2015 - 2017. PI: Miguel Á. Rodríguez. Budget: 157300 euros.

 

  • Disentangling history and evolution of a major Iberian diversity hotspot, a multiscalar approach in the Sierra Nevada National Park. 2011 - 2015. PI: Juan Arroyo. Budget: 161805 euros.

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  • Past, present and future of pre-mediterranean plants: between the success of maquis and the failure of relictual plants under a scenario of global change. 2010 - 2014. PI: Juan Arroyo. Budget: 202757 euros.

People

  • Ignacio Ramos Gutiérrez. PhD Thesis supervision (2019 - onwards). Biogeography and macroecology of Iberian plants.

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  • Darío Martínez-Atienza Barthelemy. Ms Thesis supervision (2021 - 2022). Phylogenetic structure of the medicinal plants of Ecuador.​​

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  • Cristopher Fernández Blas. Bs Thesis supervision (2020 - 2021): â€‹Análisis filogenético del halofitismo a distintas escalas espaciales.

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  • Cristina Ronquillo Ferrero. GIS and data manager technician (2020 - 2021)​

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  • Sonia Llorente Culebras. Bs Thesis supervision (2017 - 2018): La historia evolutiva de los árboles predice su respuesta a la pérdida de bosque: un caso de estudio en la España peninsular.

Education

  • 2022 - onwards: Assistant professor. Dept. Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.                                  

  • 2019 - 2022: Post-doctoral fellow (TALENTO Fellow Programme), Dept. Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá. Mentoring: Miguel Á. Rodríguez.

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  • 2017 - 2019: Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Plant Science, University of Bern. Mentoring: Markus Fischer.

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  • 2015 - 2017: Post-doctoral fellow. Dept. Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá. Mentoring: Miguel Á. Rodríguez.

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  • 2010 - 2014: PhD Integrative Biology. Dept. Plant Biology and Ecology (Botany), Universidad de Sevilla. Mentoring: Juan Arroyo, Abelardo Aparicio, Sébastien Lavergne.

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  • 2008 - 2009: M.Sc. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla).

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  • 2003 - 2008: B.Sc. Biology, Universidad de Sevilla.

Awards

  • Best Postdoc Poster Award (second place) at the 58th Phylogenetic Symposium “Evolution meets Ecology”. November 2016, Leipzig, Germany.

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  • Outstanding Graduation Award (Biology, 2007 - 2008).

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  • Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla Award to the most outstanding undergraduate students of the year, 2007 - 2008.

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  • Academic Excellence Award, Seville City Council, 2008.

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  • San Alberto Magno Award to the most outstanding academic record of Biology Faculty, University of Seville, year 2003 - 2008.

Interviews

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  • Interviewed in the Spanish radio station broadcast Onda Cero Alcalá; April 2021 (download the interview here).

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  • Interviewed in the Spanish radio station broadcast SER Henares, programme "El conocimiento, en este lugar"; May 2021 (download the interview here).

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Short-term stays at international research centers

  • McGill University (Canada). April 1 - May 31, 2016.

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  • University of California-Davis (EEUU). February 1 - April 6, 2014.

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  • South African Environmental Observation Network. November 1, 2012 - January 1, 2013.

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  • Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire D’Ecologie Alpine (France). September 15 - December 18, 2011.

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  • Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire D’Ecologie Alpine (France). March 1 - April 15, 2011.

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