I am a biologist working at the interface of evolution, genomics and computational biology to understand the role of genetic variability in shaping the distributional patterns of species and the underlying factors of local adaptation. My work has been restricted mainly to lizards so far, but now I am spanning the taxonomic range, from humans to fishes. My research is motivated by my desire to know how selection promotes diversity, and what the determinants of its geographical patterning are.

I started to show interest in evolutionary biology as an undergraduate student, when I was working in the Department of Genetics at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) on population genetics of a tree, Abies pinsapo. From there, I moved to the Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution at the same university to develop my Master Thesis in sexual selection of lizards. There, I also did my PhD (FPI granted) under the supervision of José A. Díaz and Javier Pérez-Tris, working on local adaptation dynamics and population genomics of a Mediterranean lizard, Psammodromus algirus. I obtained my PhD with an international mention plus cum laude honors and was proposed for an extraordinary mention.

During my PhD thesis, I have been visiting scholar at Leuven University (Belgium) and at UC Berkeley (USA) and attended and participated in several national and international meetings on evolutionary biology and courses on genomics and bioinformatics. I have also published some papers on evolutionary ecology, biogeography and conservation genetics and I had experience in teaching during the entire period of my PhD (3 years supervised + 1 year unsupervised).