91滴滴

Education and Professional experience

Since 2018 Adjunct, 91滴滴, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology

2014 鈥� 2018 Post-doc, Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg (Germany)

2008 鈥� 2013 Researcher, Spanish Institute of Oceanography. La Coru帽a & Santander (Spain)

2007 鈥� 2008 Post-doc, Marine Station of Arcachon, University of Bordeaux (France)

2004 鈥� 2007 Researcher, Spanish Institute of Oceanography. La Coru帽a (Spain)

1999 鈥� 2000 Invertebrate Collection. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid (Spain)

2006 PhD 鈥� Marine Biology. University of Alcal谩 (Spain)

Dissertation: The subtidal suprabenthic communities of the R铆a de La Coru帽a and adjacent shelf (NW Iberian Peninsula).

Research projects (last 5 years):

- 2020鈥�2021 芦BIOAKA: Biodiversity of Amphipods from Kanaky (New Caledonia)禄 PHC-Polonium - Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. Polish coordinator.

- 2019鈥�2022 芦Biodiversity patterns and scale: the case of peracarid crustacea from south-eastern Australia (BIOPASS). Polish National Science Centre. Researcher.

- 2018鈥�2019 芦The suprabenthic diversity yielded in the TAG site: is there connectivity along the ridge?禄 InterRidge Consortium Grant. Project manager.

- 2017 芦Abyssal Peracarida diversity in the North Atlantic Ocean: What鈥檚 about the Demerara plain?禄 EU SHYNTESYS Grant

- 2014鈥�2018 芦Bathymetry of the Vema-Fracture Zone and Puerto Rico TRench and Abyssal AtlaNtic BiodiverSITy Study禄. Post-doc. (German Ministry for Science & Education; PI: Angelika Brandt).

Last research expeditions (in total: 644 working days at sea)

- KANADEEP2. R/V L'Atalante. New Caledonia deep waters. September鈥扥ctober 2019

- IceAGE_RR. R/V Maria S. Merian. Steinah贸ll vent field and Reykjanes Ridge. June鈥扐ugust 2018

- BICOSE2. R/V Pourquoi pas? TAG and Snake Pit sites (Mid-Atlantic Ridge). January鈥揗arch 2018

- SokhoBio. R/V Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev. Sea of Okhotsk (NW Pacific). July鈥揂ugust 2015

- Vema-TRANSIT. R/V Sonne. Vema Fracture Zone & Puerto Rico Trench. December 2014鈥揓anuary 2015

My research interests are peracarid crustaceans: their biodiversity and ecology and their role in the suprabenthic communities from coastal to deep-sea waters.

Their taxonomy and systematics supplemented with biogeography allow me to assess their biodiversity and connectivity in the deep sea.