I have held a PhD in Biology from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU since 2011. The research activity that I have developed during these years has been carried out in the Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the UPV/EHU. I have worked mainly in a research line related to the epidemiology, genomics and detection of Salmonella and other pathogenic bacteria. In recent years, research has focused on epidemiological studies of pathogenic bacteria by means of whole genome sequencing and the search for pathogenicity factors and antibiotic resistance markers, among others, and establishing their relationship with phenotypes. I am currently one of the Principal Investigators of the MikroIker Research Group of the UPV/EHU. Among the research lines developed in the group, nowadays I lead the one related to the study of microbial diversity. In this new research line of the group we are characterising the microbial population of different brackish and saline springs, brine and salt production points in continental salterns with the aim of studying the diversity of halophilic microorganisms.