My academic education includes an MSc degree in Forestry Engineering (2009) and a PhD in Advanced Forest Research (2015) from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). After completing my PhD, I moved to the Laboratory of Plant Ecology from Ghent University (UGent, Belgium) for almost five years, three of them as an FWO [PEGASUS]2-Marie Sklodowoska-Curie Fellow. I recently came back to the UPM with a "Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación” grant (since 2020). During my PhD stage, my research focused on sub-mediterranean oak coppice forests, with a particular interest in the clonal structure of resprouting species, dendrochronology, and plant physiology. During my postdoctoral stage, I specialised in tree stem respiration and hydraulics, carbon transport tracking through state-of-the-art isotopic techniques, and plant process-based modelling. Training in these approaches allows applying tree functioning knowledge to solve global issues such as forest decline and land-use change associated with Global Change. My research training has been complemented with eight international research stays; four predoctoral stays at the University of Georgia (USA, three months), Université de Québec en Abitibi-Temiscaminge (Canada, two months), Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland, one month), and UGent (Belgium, two months), and four postdoctoral stays at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (France, one month), the Hawkesbury Institute for Environment (Australia, three months), the Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany, one month), and UMR Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (French Guyane, two weeks). Such intense transnational mobility has contributed to developing new competencies, acquiring a wider scientific perspective, and establishing a broad international scientific network. Illustratively, I am the first author of a paper recently published by Nature Communications summarising results of a European network of dendrometer data.

I participated in 12 research projects, nine funded through competitive calls. I am a co-author of 37 articles published in journals indexed in the Journals Citation Report (JCR), two in the Nature portfolio, 19 as the first author, and 75% in the first decile of journals belonging to the categories of Forestry, Plant Sciences and Multidisciplinary Sciences. Remarkably, two first-authored papers have been supported by follow-up commentaries in New Phytologist and Plant, Cell & Environment. Moreover, I am the first author of one book chapter in which I was invited to review the "Carbon losses from respiration and emission of volatile organic compounds" (Springer). My research activity has also led to 17 contributions in national and international conferences or workshops, and I was recently invited to the second symposium on plant pneumatics as a keynote speaker. I am acquiring experience attracting funding from national and international competitive calls. I was selected for a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (2016 call) and a scholarship within the programme "Atracción de Talento" of the Community of Madrid (2019 call). I turned down these two highly competitive grants due to incompatibility with funding achieved in simultaneously applied calls. Moreover, I have received funding for projects from the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) as a principal investigator, from UGent (Special Research Fund, BOF) to co-supervise a PhD, and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) as a principal investigator. I recently presented a research proposal in the ERC Starting Grant (call 2022) with the ambition of starting my research group and improving plant water use efficiency through nanobiotechnology.

In parallel with my research activities, I have performed teaching assignments as a co-lecturer in MSc courses from UGent (2017-2020). I currently assist in teaching activities in four BSc and MSc courses at UPM (2020-2022). I also mentor young researchers. I have supervised a final MSc thesis at the UPM, co-supervised two PhD thesis at UGent, and am currently co-supervising two more PhD candidates (at UGent) and one BSc (at UPM). I belong to the editorial board of Frontiers in Plant Biophysics and Modelling, the review board of Tree Physiology. I frequently review manuscripts for other journals indexed in the JCR (31 according to Publons). I have participated as a scientific evaluator for the 2021 call "Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento" programme (call 2021, MICINN – EVALUA, Spain), in the Emmy Noether Programme (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinchaft, Germany), in one PhD dissertation thesis, and five MSc thesis (UGent). Finally, I obtained the accreditation for Profesor Contratado Doctor by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Evaluation and Accreditation (ANECA).