about me

I am a researcher at the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology of Spain (INIA-CSIC). My research is focused on understanding the impacts that fire, climate change and ecosystem management have on the plant-soil interactions, particularly plant-mycorrhizal associations, and the consequences of these impacts for ecosystem functioning.

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I studied environmental Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and later conducted a MSc in Environmental Management at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICH -CIHEAM, Greece). In 2010 obtained my PhD from the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville (IRNAS-CSIC) after conducting three short research internships at the University of Toulouse (France), the WSL (Switzerland) and the Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Institute (New Zealand). Until 2019 I worked as postdoc at the University of Melbourne (Australia), where I joined the Integrated Forested Ecosystem Research Program (IFER).

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Since then, I have worked as a Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology of Spain (INIA-CSIC), within the Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Ecology research group.