Dr. Marcos Francos is a Lecturer in Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Salamanca. He has been researching soil system perturbations for the last 10 years. He carried out his thesis (2019) about the effects of wildfires and forest management on soil properties. Currently, he is supervising four doctoral theses. He has carried out research in Spain and Lithuania. His doctoral thesis was acknowledged as the best soil thesis by the Spanish Society of Soil Science in 2019 and also as the best doctoral thesis defended in 2019 by the PhD program of the University of Barcelona. Just after his doctoral thesis, Marcos won a post-doctoral contract as a researcher at the University of Tarapacá (Chile). After that, he was hired as an Assistant Professor by the same university. Since 06/09/2021, he has been a tenure-track Lecturer at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Since 21/06/2023, he has been a Lecturer (full) at the same university. He has presented communications at more than 30 national and international conferences and is a reviewer of more than 25 scientific journals. He has collaborated with more than 25 scientific journals as a reviewer, associate editor, and member of the editorial board. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and more than 10 book chapters in prestigious international journals and publications. His research interests include physical geography, soil science, forest fires, post-fire management; geochemistry, etc.