Curriculum Vitae

Current position

September 2018 – current: Associate Professor (“Profesor Contratado Doctor”) – University Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Past employment and professional associations

June 2012 – September 2018      Ramón y Cajal Junior Group Leader – University Pablo de Olavide, Spain

Aug 2009 – May 2012  JAE-Doc Post-doctoral Fellow – Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain

July 2005 – Aug 2009   Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow – University of Uppsala, Sweden

June 2004 – May 2008 Associated Scientist – Centro Nacional Patagónico, Argentina

Oct 2003 – May 2004   Associated Scientist – University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Nov 2003 – Jan 2004    Honorary Fellow – University of Groningen, The Netherlands

July 2002 – Sept 2003  TALENT Research Scholarship – New Mexico State University, USA

Higher Education and Qualifications

PhD: University of Groningen and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), 23 December 2002, Marine Biology / Evolutionary Ecology, Profs. T. Piersma & W.J. Wolff. Thesis: The Ecology and Evolution of Anti-Predation Traits in a Burrowing Bivalve, Macoma balthica

MSc: Leiden University, 31 August 1995, Animal Ecology / Evolutionary Biology

Publications

Get the Full list and pdfs of my papers published in international, peer-reviewed journals here.

PUBLICATION SUMMARY: 

My work has appeared in high-quality international peer-reviewed journals such as Science (twice), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (four times), Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentEvolutionAmerican NaturalistMolecular Ecology (five times), Proceedings of the Royal Society-B (four times), Biology LettersJournal of Animal EcologyJournal of Evolutionary Biology (three times), OecologiaOikosBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and Behavioral Ecology (five times). The vast majority of my publications (82%) have been published in journals within the top 25% (Q1) of their field as based on ISI-JCR impact factors. The average impact factor of the journals in which I published is 5.05, and increasing to 6.31 over the last ten years. I am first or single author on 46% of my publications (and first, second or senior on 75%). The median number of coauthors is only two, and I have published at the most 10 papers with the same coauthor.

Teaching

: see Teaching.

Previous member of the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program “Environment and Society

Current coordinator of the Master Program “Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

Funding

Since 2002 I have obtained all the necessary funding for my research (>1,250,000 Euros) by writing nationally and internationally competitive proposals. These include a Talent Scholarship, an Honorary Fellowship, an EU-funded Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship, and projects from the Plan Nacional and Explora schemes of the Spanish government, and also helping obtain contracts for three post-docs, three PhD students and two full-time technicians.

Participation in projects

: see Other Projects (N=19, Principal Investigator=10)

Regular reviewer for international, peer-reviewed journals

I pride myself in giving thorough, extensive and constructive reviews. Many journals are the absolute top in their fields:

Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Molecular Ecology, American Naturalist, Journal of Animal Ecology, etcetera.

I have been awarded as Top Reviewer in Publons’ 2018 and 2019 global Peer Review Award, and acknowledged as Top Reviewer by Molecular Ecology in 2012 and 2014.

I was member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2016-2019), and Reviews Editor for Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution (2013-2017).

I was Guest Editor for a special issue of Evolutionary Ecology on asymmetric and non-random dispersal and gene flow, Nov. 2015

Organiser of scientific meetings

I have organised symposia at 7 international (European or global) conferences and 2 national meetings.

Public outreach

  • Members and participant in the project EvoKE (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone), funded by COST (EU-ESF)
  • My work has featured in several TV and radio programs, newspapers and magazines, and countless blogs and websites
  • Three days of live presentations and computer activities at the  Science Fair (Sevilla) in 2016, 2017 and 2019 (22.000 visitors)
  • I visited several primary schools for talks and projects about science
  • I published 14 popular scientific papers

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