Postdoctoral researcher.
Ever since I was a child, I have had an enormous interest in birds. This led me to study Biology and later to specialise in Zoology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Throughout these first years I have participated in different activities related to the monitoring, study and conservation of birds, including scientific ringing and collaboration as a volunteer in a centre for the recovery of nocturnal birds of prey. I did my doctoral thesis at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales where I studied the ecology, behaviour and life strategies of hovering individuals of the Spotless Starling. I am currently working at the same institution investigating the evolution of phenotypic traits (ornaments) through sexual selection using the pied flycatcher as a model species. I have also participated in other projects with interests in the field of ecophysiology. The lines of research in which I have participated deal with a wide variety of topics, but all of them could be included in the field of evolutionary ecology.
I consider myself an active person, who enjoys sports and spending time in nature, either hiking in the mountains or discovering new places to observe wild animals. From time to time I also like to spend some of my time playing videogames or reading books about Philosophy and History. I am very stimulated to learn new things (like languages), although most of the time I leave it half way... I could say that I have been trying to learn to play the guitar for many years and I would be lying if I said that this is the first time I have started to study Japanese.