Dr. Rafael Bañón has worked in the autonomous govern of Xunta de Galicia and in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He graduated in biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1988 and recieved his MSc at the University of Vigo in 2016. He has participated in more than 200 sampling expeditions in the Atlantic Ocean. His current areas of research are fish integrative taxonomy, ichthyofauna of seamounts, the impact of climate change on fishes, marine exotic species, biogeography, and fishers and fisheries' anthropology.