The consequences of climate oscillations at time scales relevant to human life are as yet to be explored. My research interest lies in changes occurring when thresholds are crossed in the Earth’s system, including temporal and spatial distribution of insolation, solar and volcanic activity, wind patterns, ocean’s thermohaline pump, extension and retreat of marine and continental ice and the chemistry of the atmosphere. The Arctic, North Atlantic and Mediterranean regions are taken as the laboratory for tracing these processes and the tools for detecting them are fossil organic compounds originally forming part of diverse organisms, such as bacteria, archaea or marine and terrestrial flora. The focus is on high-resolution palaeo reconstructions of the most recent millennia and previous assimilated analogues in the past to capture fine-scale climate variability and rapid transitions relevant to ongoing changes and future climate change scenarios.
Positions. CSIC Scientist [Spain; since 2021], Shackleton Award by the University of Cambridge, elected into Life Membership of Clare Hall as linked honours [United Kingdom; since 2012]. Prior activities [2000-2006] and JAE [2012-2014] and Ramón y Cajal [2015-2021] at CSIC, Juan de la Cierva at University of Barcelona [2009-2011] and PostGraduate at the University of Cambridge Cambridge [EAOG Award (2007)].
Education. Doctor of Natural Sciences magna Cum laude (B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering – Soil Sciences and Environmental Management); Ph.D. dissertation as publication compendium in peer-reviewed journals [SCIENCE (2004, 2007)]. Attended >40 postgraduate programmes on the environmental subject.
Scientific contributions and funding. Active coordinator roles in national/international projects e.g., IBCC-Shack [PID2022-137665NB-I00 (2022)]; TORE-5deg [CTM2017-84113-R (2017)]; PAST4FUTURE [FP7-ENV-2009-1-243908 (2014)] and networks e.g. 2k [2 NATURE COMM E&E (2023, 2020); 3 NATURE GEO (2023, 2015); NATURE (2016); NATURE SCI. RES. (2016); NATURE SCI. DATA (2017)], Past InterGlacials [NATURE COMM. (2018); NATURE GEOSCI. (2009)], SISAL Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis for the Middle East [ESSD (2024, 2020); QUAT. (2019)], CLIMOVAR [ESR (2020)] and PalϵoIMAGING, including workshops and associated outreach events at CosmoCaixa (2015, 2019, 2025) to coordinate and promote the study of Mediterranean climate change.
With >50 contributions in journals with high impact and multidisciplinary, prioritising Open Access (>81% of the manuscripts) and Open Data (>120 datasets), frequently cited (Q1, D1, >4 ‘Highly Cited recent papers, top 1% of academic field’), meaning that are opening a valuable line of research appreciated by the scientific community.
