About me
I am an ecologist with a strong background in data science, specializing in the movement and spatial ecology of animals, and its application to conservation.
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, Spain, within the iMares research group. I’ve joined the project “Spatial Habitat Identification and Forecasting Tool (SHIFT)”, financed by the Momentum Program of CSIC.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
PhD in Biodiversity
October 2012 - January 2020
University of Barcelona (UB) & Centre of Advanced Studies in Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Spain
Supervisors: Dr Jacob González-Solís & Dr Frederic Bartumeus
Title: Movement ecology in pelagic seabirds
PhD. defence date: 20/01/2020
Master Degree in Biodiversity
Septmber 2011 - Septmber 2012
University of Barcelona, Spain
Supervisor: Dr Jacob González-Solís
Title: Migration of Boyd’s shearwater (Puffinus boydi) using geolocators and stable isotope analysis
Bachelors & Mgr. (Master) Degree in Ecology and Environmental Science
Septmber 2002 - May 2007
University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra, Slovakia
Title: Endangered plants of Zoborské vrchy hills
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Post-doctoral researcher
December 2024 – Present
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Supervisor: Dr Francisco Ramírez & Dr Maria Grazia Penino
Project: Spatial Habitat Identification and Forecasting Tool (SHIFT)
Funding: Momentum CSIC
Post-doctoral researcher
April 2023 – Oct 2024
Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Supervisor: Dr Francisco Ramírez
Project: A Safe Operating Space for Penguins: fostering the present and future conservation of penguins and their associated marine systems (SOSPEN)
Post-doctoral researcher
April 2021 – June 2022
Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC-CNRS), France
Supervisor: Dr Yan Ropert-Coudert
Project: Do Adélie penguins care about boundaries? Using the winter locations of a sentinel species for dynamic management of Marine Protected Areas under climate change scenarios
Funding: Post-doctoral grant Make Our Planet Great Again grant and WWF-UK.
Post-doctoral researcher
October 2020 – March 2021
Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands
Supervisors: Dr Marcel Visser & Dr Antica Culina
Project: SPI-Birds - Studies of Populations of Individuals Birds Network & Database
Pre-doctoral researcher
October 2014 – October 2016
Department of Evolutive biology, Ecology and Environmental science
University of Barcelona, Spain
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Data Scientist
October 2018 – July 2020
Proyectos en Gestión del Conocimiento, Mataró, Spain
Project: SAPIENS, Funded by FECYT/CDTI Spain
COURSES AND TRAININGS
Network analysis and graph theory: exploring marine functional connectivity
June 2024
Online training workshop, Sea-Unicorn COST Action (15h)
Animal Welfare for the Use of Wildlife for Scientific Purposes
2024 – ongoing
CSIC, Spain (55h + 40h of practical)
Occupational risk prevention (safety in the fieldwork)
Apr - May 2024
Online presential course, CSIC, Spain (50h)
Open code and data practices during peer review
Oct 2023
Online hackathon, SORTEE Virtual Conference
Placement of harnesses for telemetry on birds
March 2022
Presential course, Aranzadi Science Society, Spain (6h)
Writing for scientists
Nov 2020 – Jan 2021
Online course, Writing scientist (20h)
Webinar series: Biodiversity data from the field to research
Nov 2020
Online course, SCAR Antarctic biodiversity portal (6h)
Advancing in statistical modelling using R
Dec 2016
PR Statistics, UK (35h)
Computational Ecology Lab
Oct - Dec 2015
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany (8 weeks’ internship). Under supervision of Dr Kamran Safi.
GEOSTAT Summer School
Aug 2015
University of Lancaster, UK (30h)
ArcGIS
Dec 2014
University of Barcelona, Spain (20h)
Introduction to Bayesian statistics in R
Feb 2014
University of Barcelona, Spain (20h)
Programming and graphics in R
Feb 2013
University of Barcelona, Spain (20h)
Applied statistics in biological sciences
Jan 2013
University of Barcelona, Spain (9h)
Ornithology courses: Introduction to bird ringing (24h), Moult strategies in Passeriformes, Introduction to bird counting methods (11h), Applied statistics in ornithology (20h)
March/Nov 2011
Catalan Society of Ornithology & ZOO Barcelona, Spain
Conservation biology (Intense summer course, 30h)
July 2011
University of Zaragoza & Foundation for Bearded Vulture Conservation, Spain
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Associated Editor for Ardeola: International Journal of Ornithology.
Reviewer for journals: Movement Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Marine Biology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface.