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• Senior Researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) working at the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB), and former Director of the IBB
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quaternary
• Associate Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and Frontiers in Plant Science

Current research interests

• Ecological responses to climate change
• Climate-vegetation-human feedbacks and synergies
• Quaternary ecology, evolution and biogeography
• Origin of Neotropical biodiversity and endemism
• Human settlement of remote islands
• Anthropization of mountain landscapes
• Cannabis in the paleoecological record
• The “Anthropocene” epoch

Study areas

• Orinoco lowlands and delta
• Guiana region: the Pantepui lost world and the Gran Sabana 
• High mountains: Tropical Andes, Trans-Mexican volcanic belt, Pyrenees
• Oceanic Islands: Azores (Atlantic), Easter Island (Pacific)

News

• The extinction of science (not new but worth remembering)… read more
• Montcortès: a unique Mediterranean paleoecological record of the last 3000 years… read more
• Some high-elevation Pyrenean forests remained virtually pristine during the last 4000 years… read more
• My lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the publication of three books issued by renowned international publishers (Elsevier/Academic Press and Springer Nature)… read more