Carlos Barata is a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Spanish Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC). His research topics encompass different research fields: ecology, evolutionary genetics, ecotoxicology, environmental risk assessment, and toxicogenomics. In particular, he is interested in the development and design of bioassays for the detection of ecologically relevant and emerging effects of toxicants and their mixtures in fish, insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and worms, and the application of molecular tools to study the mechanisms of action of contaminants. His studies has been carried out in collaboration with several national and foreign scientific institutions. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He is the coordinator of the group “Toxicology and Environmental Impact” of the Generalitat de Catalunya, NE, Spain (2021SGR00409).  He is an associate editor of Ecotoxicology and Aquatic Toxicology.