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PhD student in the field of evolutionary genetics and genomics. We use spiders of the genus Dysdera as a model organism to understand evolutionary mechanisms that have allowed adaptation to the Canary Islands.

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.

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 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.