I am an environmental scientist with a Ph.D. in Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Plant Physiology from the University of Barcelona. I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University on the NordSalt and Blue Forests (“Blå Skove”) projects.
I am interested in understanding the long-term dynamics of blue carbon ecosystems, their anthropogenic impacts as well as their conservation and restoration. I have special interest in assessing and quantifying the long-term ecosystemic resilience of blue carbon ecosystems and the occurrence of alternative stable states. During my thesis training, I focused on when, how, and why have Mediterranean seagrass meadows changed over the last centuries and millennia through paleoecological reconstructions using seagrass sediment archives. The results obtained provided a valuable frame of reference for assessing the magnitude of current seagrass changes, indicating that the major changes occurred over the last century and a half. I could also evaluate the long-term stability and resilience of seagrass production as well as the long-term influence of large-scale climatic changes. During my time as a Ph.D. student I participated in three projects not only aiming to reconstruct long-term ecosystem dynamics but also to estimate carbon accumulation rates and stocks in seagrass meadows and saltmarshes. One of these projects was a EU LIFE Programme which main objective was to quantify the carbon storage and sequestration potential of salt marshes and seagrass meadows in the region of Andalusia (south Spain).
