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Position

• Senior Researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), at Geosciences Barcelona (GEO3BCN). Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Paleoecology
• Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quaternary and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and Frontiers in Plant Science

Current research interests

• Biotic responses to climate change
• Climate-vegetation-human interactions
• Quaternary ecology, evolution and biogeography
• Origin of Neotropical biodiversity and endemism
• The scientific basis of the “Anthropocene”
• Scientific epistemology

Study areas

• Orinoco lowlands and delta
• Guiana region: Pantepui (video), Gran Sabana (video) 
• South American Caribbean coasts
• Tropical and temperate mountains: Andes, Trans-Mexican volcanic belt, Pyrenees (video)
• Oceanic Islands: Azores (video), Easter Island (video)

Current projects

• LACEN – Sentinel Lakes of Global Change in National Parks: A Multidisciplinary Analysis over the last 6000 years. Funded by the Autonomous Organism of National Parks, Spain (OAPN-24505). PI: Teresa Vegas (BEECA, University of Barcelona, Spain).
• DiscoverAZORES – When Were the Azores Really Colonized? A High-Resolution Paleolimnological Approach. Funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation, Portugal (02/SAICT/2017-28511). PI: Pedro Raposeiro (CIBIO-InBIO, University of Azores, Portugal).
• ClavelN109216 – Glaciers and Paleoclimate of Central Mexico during the laset 13,000 years. Funded by the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). PI: Lorenzo Vázquez Selem (Institute of Geography, UNAM, México).

Latest news

• A comment on my book “Quaternay Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography“ (Academic Press) has been published by Hooghiemstra & Flantua (2010) in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews – (September 2020)
• The book “The Prehistory of Easter Island (Rapa Nui): Towards an Interdisciplinary Integrative Framework” has been approved by Springer and will be published in 2021. Check the preliminary table of contents – (June 2020)
• The book “Paleoecological Research on Easter Island: Insights on Settlement, Climate Changes, Deforestation and Cultural Shifts” (Elsevier) was published on August 6, 2020. Download the front matter – (June 2020)