Geologist (Univ. of Granada, Spain, 1998) and PhD in Earth Sciences (Univ. Granada, Spain, 2005). Postdoctoral research in the Department of Geology of the University of Chile, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton (UK), and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (UK). Research interests focus on mineralogy, geochemistry, and science education. From 2020, the Director of the Department of the Didactics of Experimental Sciences and coordinator of a university volunteering and social-educative service-learning initiative.