Welcome! This is my academic website where you will find all topics related to my scientific activity.

I do research on long-term environmental change, as I believe addressing longer time scales enable us to observe how our planet has dynamically change, leading us to establish baselines from which past disturbances have affected ecosystem’s resilience. Adding time and space to the study of environmental dynamics is possibly the most comprehensive manner to understand, predict and mitigate current Global Change.

Thus, I pose myself questions linked to the relative roles of environmental disturbance – abrupt climate change, human activities and natural disturbances as fire – on Earth Systems processes and functionality. To see more on my publications, research and projects please click on the top page menu.

The main three aspects driving my research are:

1) Palaeoclimate reconstructions in sensitive areas to Global Change as drylands and semi-arid areas of Africa and the Iberian Peninsula,

2) Quantitative analyses of the Earth Systems-human interaction in long temporal scales, with a particular stress on the system resilience and,

3) High resolution reconstruction of fire regimes in the Iberian Peninsula leading to robust quantitative reconstructions of fire frequency.

Vegetation surveys in the Lower Omo Valley (Ethiopia) aiming to compare modern savanna spatial dynamics with past land cover inferred from fossil pollen spectra

Pollen quest! Looking at fossil pollen and microcharcoal…I swear I am awake.

Getting out of a smelly hyrax midden (Bale Mountains, Ethiopia 2018)

Looking at the boundaries of the Bale Mountains plateau (Ethiopia)

Looking at a core from a palaeolacustrine deposit in the Ethiopian plateau

My expertise is on:

• Analyses and interpretation of biological indicators of past and current Global Change (namely pollen and charcoal as proxies of vegetation change and fire disturbances).

• Establishing present-day monitoring  methods, bridging the gap between past dynamics and present interpretations of Earth System Processes.
• Applying quantitative methods to precisely infer post-disturbance ecosystem dynamics.

I analyze proxies from a variety of records, mainly lacustrine, bogs,  and biogenic accumulations.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Ecology of the Philipps-Marburg University in Marburg, Germany. 

I am also a research fellow at the lab of Dr Blas Valero-Garcés at the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments department of IPE-CSIC (check out our twitter profile @PaleoIPE,  all great fun!). I am still co-leading the research cluster on palaeoecology and past biological indicators with Dr Penélope González-Sampériz

If you would like to collaborate or work along with me, please do not hesitate in contacting me