Biography

After earning my Environmental Science degree (1998-2002) from the University of Granada (UGR), I worked for a short period in the private sector (2003-2004) managing environmental and quality rules (ISO 14000/2004, 9001/2000) in civil construction UC10, S.A. In 2004 I was awarded a selective doctoral grant by the Andalusian Regional Government to develop my thesis in the University of Granada's Applied Physics department (2008) focused on land-atmosphere carbon dioxide (CO2) exchanges in karst systems using different techniques. Then, I obtained the Spanish Ministry Mobility Postdoctoral fellowship to work in Belgium at the University of Antwerp in the research group of plant and vegetation ecology (PLECO; 2009-2010) and a “Juan de la Cierva” fellowship at the CSIC-EEZA in Almería (Spain) (2010-2013). After finishing this fellowship, at the end of 2013, I was awarded a contract from the UGR for 5 years (Plan Propio de la UGR,”Incorporación de jóvenes doctores a nuevas líneas de investigación”) in the Ecology department.My research papers span research lines from inter-annual variability of (turbulent) net ecosystem CO2 and water vapour exchanges and their underlying processes, to the effect of management on the ecosystem’s C sink and technical papers improving the eddy covariance methodology. My doctoral thesis opened a new line of research regarding CO2 cycling in semi-arid lands, concerning subterranean storage and ventilation of gas-phase CO 2 and its role in net carbon exchanges. Finally, I am currently leading a new line of research in the Ecology department about greenhouse gases (GHG) flux measurements using the eddy covariance technique, including not only CO2 and water vapour but also CH4 exchanges