- Senior Researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) working at the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB), 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 book “The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Towards an Integrative Interdisciplinary Framework” (Springer) has been sent to the press and will be issued early next year
- 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
