I am an aquatic microbial ecologist, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, 2002. My thesis was focused in the structure, function and regulation of the phytoplankton-bacteria link in high-mountain lakes. Currently, I am Associate professor at the University of Granada, Spain. My scientific interests extend from the study of plankton mixotrophy and its ecological interactions (organism’s perspective) to the study of the response mechanisms to the interaction of multiple stressors of global change of aquatic ecosystems, their loss of functional biodiversity and performance as sources or sinks of carbon and nitrogen (ecosystem perspective). It is my scientific and philosophical wish that science and university teaching can increase awareness of the need to take care of our planet and its inhabitants.