Graduated in Geological Sciences, U. Salamanca; PhD Univ. of Oviedo. Professor (PTU) in Geomorphology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Cantabria (Spain). Invited researcher at the U. Milano-Bicocca, Ferrara and Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy), at ITC (The Netherlands), Geol. S. Canada (Canada), La Plata and Jujuy (Argentina), San Carlos and Florianopolis (Brazil) and Colima (Mexico). More than 170 scientific contributions. Principal researcher and collaborator in more than 22 international and national researchprojects. Supervisor of five PhD theses. Member of the Geological Society of Spain and of the Spanish Geomorphology Society. Deputy Director and Director of the Department from 2012-23. Research topics include the analysis of spatial data through Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing techniques; the sustainable management of resources and geomorphological risks (EIA, environmental planning and geological heritage); the global change and the Anthropocene; the relationships between human activities and the climate and surface geomorphological processes; the assessment and mapping of natural processes and associated risks; geomorphology, especially hillside processes and subsidence and erosive processes.