EDUCATION
2005-2009: Ph.D. in Geology: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) Advisors: Dr. M. Teresa Alberdi, Dr. Beatriz Azanza and Dr. Jorge Morales. Ph.D.Dissertation title: Taphonomic study of the Vallesian vertebrate locality of Batallones-1, Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid (Late Miocene) (in Spanish). Awards: Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2004-2006: Master's Degree in Geology: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Advisors: Dr. M. Teresa Alberdi and Dr. Beatriz Azanza
2004-2005: Master's Degree in Education: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Intership at Emperatriz María de Austria High School (Madrid, Spain)
1999-2004: Bachelor's Degree in Geology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Awards: Bachelors Degree Award, School of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Special Mention in the National Bachelors Degree Awards, Spanish Ministry of Education
FELLOWSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS
December 2022-present: Associate Professor, School of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
March 2022-December 2022: Assistant Professor, School of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
February 2019-March 2022: Assistant Professor, School of Education, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
February 2017-January 2019: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (European Comission), Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (Seville, Spain)
2014-2016: Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spanish Government), School of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
January 2014-May 2014: Lecturer, Saint Louis University-Madrid
2013-2014: Postdoctoral Researcher (associated to Spanish National project CGL2009-09000), School of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2012-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher (associated to project NSF EAR 0957992), Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)
2010-2012: FECYT Postdoctoral Fellow (Ministry of Education, Spanish Government), Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)
April 2009-October 2009: Research Assistant (associated to Spanish National project BTE2007-60790/BTE), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
2005-2008: FPU Predoctoral Fellow (Ministry of Education, Spanish Government), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
January 2005-February 2005: I3P Predoctoral Fellow (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
GRANTS (As PI)
2023-2026: Pan-Hem II: Multiproxy palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic analysis of the Iberian and South American fossil record during the late Cenozoic: an inter-hemisphere approach. PID2022-138275NB-I00. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación e Universidades (Gobierno de España). 135,000€ (Co-PI: Laura Domingo)
2017-2019: Marie Skłodowska-Curie LiveDeadFossil project 700196 "Life and death in Doñana National Park (Spain): palaeontological and ecological insights from the study of modern vertebrate death assemblages" 34,800€ (only research funds, salary and mobility allowance excluded)
2016: National Geographic Society - Committee for Research and Exploration #9833-16 "Reconstructing the exceptional Late Miocene mammalian fossil sites of Cerro de los Batallones (Spain)". 22,756€
2016: UCM-Moncloa Campus of International Excellence "Special Actions at the Somosaguas Paleontological Area (Madrid)". 31,411€ (Co-PIs: Laura Domingo, Manuel Hernández Fernández, Paloma López Guerrero, Adriana Oliver)
2016: Regional Government of the Madrid Community #199-2016 "Paleontological excavation at Somosaguas fossil sites (Madrid)". 2,000€ (Co-PI: Laura Domingo)
2015: Regional Government of the Madrid Community #130-2015 "Paleontological excavation at Somosaguas fossil sites (Madrid)". 2,000€ (Co-PI: Laura Domingo)
