Prof. Dr. Manuel Hernández Fernández has been a Full Professor at the Dept. of Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) since 2022. He completed his PhD studies in Paleontology at the UCM in 2001. Since then, he held successive postdoctoral fellowships at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid (CSIC), Yale University, and the University of Zaragoza, as well as receiving a Ramón y Cajal contract at the UCM, where he became a tenured professor in 2011. Since 2005, he has been the coordinator of the Paleoclimatology, Macroecology, and Macroevolution of Vertebrates (PMMV) Team, part of the UCM Research Group 910607 on Mammalian Evolution and Cenozoic Continental Paleoenvironments. He has also been an associate researcher at the Madrid Geosciences Institute, which is part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), since its creation in 2011. He has published more than 100 scientific papers focusing on the study of macroevolutionary processes in continental vertebrate faunas related to global climate changes, as well as on the paleoecological analysis of mammal communities and their use as paleoenvironmental indicators. His teaching includes Evolution, Paleontology and Geology courses in UCM’s Geology and Biology degrees, as well as in the Evolutionary Biology and Advanced Paleontology master’s programs.