Researcher in the Evolutionary Biology Research Group (GIBE) and tenure-track 2 professor at the Ecology department in the School of Sciences at the University of A Coruña (Spain). Graduate in Sciences (biology and geology) from Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) and PhD in Biology from the University of Barcelona (Spain). He has worked as a natural areas manager for the Valencia City Council and the Valencian Regional Government and was also a CSIC postdoctoral researcher. He has also undertaken research stays in the United Kingdom, United States, and Mexico.