In 2002, I obtained a BSc in Biology from the Complutense University (Spain). From 2002 to 2003, I did a research stay at the University Tor Vergata (Italy). In 2003, I started my PhD at the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (Spain), with stays in several countries (Puerto Rico, USA, Austria). In 2008 I obtained a PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona (Spain). My PhD Thesis was awarded the PhD Extraordinary Award from the University of Barcelona and the Honorable Mention Award from the Iberian Society for Limnology, AIL. From 2008 to 2011, I was a postdoc at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB (Germany). From 2011 to 2014, I was a postdoc at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (Spain). From 2015 to 2019, I was a postdoc at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Since September 2019, I am a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor, at the Dept. of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona.