Academic career
- 2021- Postdoc in the lab of Baocheng Guo (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China)
- 2015-2019: PhD student in the lab of Carles Vilà (Doñana Biological Station, Spanish National Research Council, Seville, Spain)
- 2013-2014: Master’s degree in Biodiversity with a major in evolutionary biology (University of Barcelona, Spain). MSc thesis in the lab of Salvador Carranza (Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2009-2013: Bachelor’s degree in Biology (University of Girona, Spain). BSc thesis in the lab of Matthias Laska (Linköping University, Sweden)
Awards & grants
- 2021: Research Fund for International Young Scientists (RFIS-I). Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2 years)
- 2020: CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Postdoctoral Researchers (Category C). Funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2 years)
- 2018: Travel grant to Matthew Webster’s lab, Uppsala University, Sweden. Funded by the Spanish Government (4 months)
- 2017: 2nd Best Poster Award at the XVI European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress, Groningen, The Netherlands
- 2017: Travel grant to Matthew Webster’s lab, Uppsala University, Sweden. Funded by the Spanish Government (4 months)
- 2016: Travel grant to Matthew Webster’s lab, Uppsala University, Sweden. Funded by the Spanish Government (4 months)
- 2015: Formación de Personal Investigador - Research personnel training (work contract to conduct PhD studies). Funded by the Spanish Government (4 years)
- 2013: Erasmus scholarship at Linköping University, Sweden. Funded by the Spanish Government (6 months)
Conferences & talks
- 2023: Invited talk at Southwest University hosted by Prof. Luohao Xu (Chongqing, China: 18/10/2023)
- 2020: Attendance to VII Biennial Congress of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology (Seville, Spain: 5-7/02/2020)
- 2018: Talk at the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology (Montpellier, France: 18-23/08/2018): “Multiple loci drive high-altitude adaptation in the Eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)” (Slides)
- 2018: Talk at SevinOmics Spring Meeting (Seville, Spain: 09/04/2018): “Genome adaptations to high altitude in the Eastern honeybee” (Slides)
- 2017: Talk at IMBIM Genomics Friday (Uppsala, Sweden: 22/09/2017): “Looking for the genetic basis of adaptation to high altitude habitats in the Eastern honeybee”
- 2017: Poster presentation at XVI European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress (Groningen, The Netherlands: 20-25/08/2017): “Looking for the genetic basis of adaptation to high altitude habitats in the Eastern honeybee” (Poster)
- 2017: Talk in Doñana Biological Station (Seville, Spain: 02/02/2017): “A genomic view on the diversification of Neotropical frogs” (Slides)
- 2016: Attendance to XVI Jornades Herpetològiques Catalanes (Parets del Vallès, Spain: 23/10/2016)
- 2016: Attendance to The Ecology of Genome Evolution Symposium (Uppsala, Sweden: 09/09/2016)
- 2016: Talk in SevinOmics Spring Meeting (Seville, Spain: 16/03/2016): “Genome size estimation in amphibians through real-time PCR” (Slides)
- 2014: Talk in XV Jornades Herpetològiques Catalanes (Sant Feliu de Codines, Spain: 11/10/2014): “DNA barcoding of the reptiles of the Socotra archipelago” (Slides)
- 2014: Attendance to XIV Jornada de Biologia Evolutiva (Barcelona, Spain: 01/07/2014)
Courses & workshops
- 2018: Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics (Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic; 2 weeks) (Photo)
- 2017: Workshop Bioinformatics for Adaptation (Valencia, Spain; 2 days) (Photo)
- 2017: Workshop on Phylogenomics (Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic; 2 weeks) (Photo)
- 2016: Perl programming with application to bioinformatics (BMC, Uppsala University, Sweden; 1 week)
- 2015: NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling (ELIXIR-ITA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy; 1 week)
- 2014: Foundations of R programming and graphics, with application to the research in biodiversity (University of Barcelona, Spain; 1 week)
Research experience
I have used both molecular lab-work and bioinformatics tools to carry out my studies. My experience includes a wide variety of skills, such as:
- DNA extraction and PCR amplification
- Processing genomic data, assembly and annotation (trimmomatic, samtools, bwa, bowtie, trinity, GATK, BLAST, …)
- Programming (UNIX, Perl, Python, R, AWK, …)
- Phylogenetic reconstructions (RAxML, BEAST, …)
- Population genomics (FST scans, population diversity, detecting selection, …)
Reviewer experience
I have reviewed scientific articles for the following journals (values in parentheses indicate the number of reviews I have completed for each journal):