I like to study plant-animal interactions because nothing happens in isolation. I find amazing that everything is connected and that the change or loss of an organism can cause changes to others.

I studied Biology in Madrid Autonomus Univeristy (UAM) in Spain and did an Erasmus Mundus Master in Tropical Ecology in the Universities of Florence (UniFi), Queensland (UQ), Brussels (VUB and ULB) and Sao Paulo Estate (Unesp). Then I did my PhD in Doñana Biological Station in Sevilla on mutualistic seed dispersal interactions between plants and frugivorous birds. Afterwards, I did a postdoc in Sevilla University (US) to work on a project developing a global database of fruit and seed traits, that explores key questions about plant evolution. Now I moved to the SLU to continue researching on plant-animal interactions, this time on butterfly caterpillars and their food plants.

For most of my academic career I have studied mutualisms (mainly seed dispersal) and explored how animals and plants depend on one another. During this postdoc I will be focusing on antagonisms, to study and try to predict which catepillars feed on which plants based on their cooccurrence, observed interactions and evolutionary history (phylogeny).