In 2007, I started my Ph.D. at the Institute of Game and Wildlife Research (IREC-UCLM-CSIC), for which I obtained a predoctoral fellowship (FPI program, Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha). I defended my Ph.D. Thesis in January 2012, which was qualified with the Excellent Cum Laude distinction. In 2012, I gained a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) at the University of Tennessee, where I worked for 3 years within Dr. Hanning´s Molecular Microbiology Lab. During this period I deepen developed my interest on the composition of bacterial microbial communities, their functional capacities and their physiological interactions with their hosts. In 2015, I returned to the SaBio group at the Institute of Game and Wildlife Research (IREC-UCLM-CSIC) with a postdoctoral research position within an European research project (COMPARE, EU) and then in 2016 with a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowship (MINECO). In these 5 years I was involved in 4 research projects, and produced 12 peer review publications (7 as 1st author), 2 book chapters and co-supervised one doctoral thesis. In 2018 I got a Diploma in Bioinformatics (University Pablo Olavide) and participated teaching to masters students (MUIBARC, IREC). In July 2019, I started to lead as a Principal Investigator the research project, IMpROVE, funded by the Regional Govern of Castilla-La Mancha Talent Retention Program, which implement metagenomic tools to investigate diversity and function of tick