Graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2001, where he also earned a Ph.D. in Wildlife Physiology in 2015. He completed an internship in Zoo, Exotic and Wildlife Medicine at Oklahoma State University in 2014. Since 2006, he has exclusively worked in the field of zoo and wildlife medicine, practicing in zoos, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centers and ex situ/in situ conservation programs of Europe, Central and North-America and South East Asia, with a special focus in free-ranging carnivore medicine and conservation. For last five years he has led the disease surveillance program for the Iberian lynx reintroduction project and the sympatric carnivore community in Southwestern, Central and South-Central Spain. His research explores the effect of disease in small, fragmented and/or endangered carnivore populations, the role of carnivores as sentinels of ecosystem health, field anesthesia of carnivores and the physiological response during capture events.