Professor of the Department of Geology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and associate researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) (Spain). He holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Exeter (UK) and is Director of the Department of Geology at the UPV/EHU. He is currently head of the PhD programme in Quaternary: Environmental Change and Human Change at the UPV/EHU, and member of the Anthropocene Working Group (International Commission on Stratigraphy).