Professional Experience 

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science &      Environment, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2024 – present)
• PhD Researcher at the Desertification Research Center (CIDE-CSIC), University of Valencia, Spain (2017 – 2024), supervised by Juli G. Pausas and Bruno Moreira.
• Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2022), hosted by Benjamin Blonder.
• MPhil Researcher at the University of Plymouth, UK (2014 – 2016), supervised by Paul Ramsay.

Education 

• PhD in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain (2024)
• MPhil in Plant Ecology, University of Plymouth, UK (2016)
• PGDip in Ecology, University of East Anglia, UK (2014)
• BA in International Development, University of Sussex, UK (2010)

Research Focus 

• Post-fire regeneration and trait-based resilience under global change
• Experimental ecology and plant ecophysiology
• Stochastic and agent-based vegetation modelling 
• Integration of ecological models into conservation decision frameworks 
• Reproducible and open-science workflows for data sharing and collaboration