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My research interests lie at the interface of limnology, palaeoecology and biogeography on questions related to how dynamics between biotic communities and their physical environment change through time. I’m fascinated in using aquatic communities such as diatoms and foraminifera with complementary geochemical and hydrological reconstructions from aquatic ecosystems that receive the influence of catchment, and climate and anthropogenic forcings across the aquatic continuum: from high-mountain lakes to river deltas.

As a biologist and environmental scientist by training, I’m also motivated by fundamental and applied questions of socio-ecological systems, particularly how human legacies explain whole-ecosystem trajectories: lake-basin and coastal-marine environments. I use data across spatial (local to continental) and temporal (decades to millennia) scales, involving quantitative multivariate analyses, geospatial and time series modelling.

I’m deeply interested in fostering open data, facilitate the exchange of ideas and skill sets, and team science to inform inform current climatic and sustainability issues using paleosciences. I’m co-leading and participating in different international research projects (see projects) in which I strive to apply these community mobilization aspects.

I am a biologist and environmental scientist currently pursuing a PhD at IRTA’s Marine and Continental Waters Programme, supervised by [Dr. Rosa Trobajo] (https://www.irta.cat/es/personal/rosa-trobajo-pujadas/). My research focuses on the taxonomy, ecology, and biogeography of diatoms, and how climate and environmental change impact their diversity. I use microscopy and DNA-metabarcoding to monitor diatom communities as bioindicators.

My work is part of applied monitoring initiatives such as the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) program, which assesses freshwater quality across Catalonia, and the [CONACAN][https://conacuana.es] project, the first to study diatom communities on the Canary Islands (La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife).