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I am a Biological Systems Engineer with a master's degree in Oceanography and Management of the Marine Environment. I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation based on the study of the effect of climate change on Antarctic marine invertebrates and their population genetics.

My overall field of research covers the spatial ecology of highly mobile vertebrates. This research focusses on ecology, behaviour and conservation of marine top predators, with an especial interest in the ecological role of seabirds in marine ecosystems.

Conservation of Bonelli Eagle Hieraaetus fasciatus through applied research, implementation of conservation measures and disclosure.

I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), which included an exchange program at the San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ) (Ecuador), and a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Development from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). For the last four years I have been involved in assessing the accountability of petroleum corporations regarding environmental liabilities and their effect on the environment in the Peruvian context. I am currently working on updating an integrated spatial assessment model that constructs the first global atlas of unburnable oil resources and also working on the operationalisation of social and equity criteria in leaving fossil fuels underground. My various contributions have been approached from interdisciplinary methodologies, including geographical information systems, literature reviews, environmental forensics, and community-based monitoring systems.

My main research interest is to characterize the major events and processes creating and shaping the diversity and distribution of living organisms. With this objective, we are using as model organisms freshwater and terrestrial planarians in two hotspots of biodiversity: The Mediterranean basin and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Through collaborations with other research teams, other study organisms have also been incorporated into our focus, such as birds or whales, expanding the range of possibilities for the evolutionary study of different taxa.

She is currently working in the long-term monitoring program of Catalan Natural Parks (Montgrí, Medes Islands and Baix Ter Natural Park and Cap de Creus Natural Park), in the north-western Mediterranean coast. Her main duties are focused on scuba diving field work, data analyses with R program and writing scientific reports.

Analysis of the impact of natural selection and other evolutionary forces, such as migration and genetic drift, in natural populations. Population genetics and genomics; phylogeography. Comparative Genomics and Molecular Evolution of multigene families and gene networks in complete genomes. Bioinformatics.

My main research line focuses on specialization and structuring as resilience modulators of large cetacean populations. Specifically, I am studying the potential drivers of fin whales baleen plate's isotopic variation in the North Atlantic, such as climate cycles and reproductive stage.

Marine phycology (macroalgae). Florisitic and phytosociological studies of population or phytobenthic communities of the Mediterranean. Biosystematic studies of different taxonomic groups focused on the implementation of the 'Flora Iberica Phycologica. Crops in germination chambers of early stage development of germ cells to give birth. Cytogenetic studies on the quantification of nuclear DNA from marine macroalgae.