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CV

Education

  • PhD Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2022, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Dissertation: "Spatiotemporal ecosystem dynamics on the West Florida Shelf: prediction, validation, and application to red tides". Advisor: David Chagaris.
     

  • MSc Oceanography and Marine Management, 2016, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Thesis: "Seasonal and spatial variability of fish, cephalopod and crustacean community in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea and environmental and anthropogenic relationship". Advisor: Marta Coll.
     

  • BS Biology, 2011, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Employment

2024-present. Research Scientist, IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

  • Assessed ecosystem impacts of red tides.

  • Develop and update and calibrate models for Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico ecosystems developing spatially.

  • Operationalization of data generation for ecosystem models.

  • Couple ecosystem models with ocean climate models.

  • Wrote scientific reports and research manuscripts.
     

2022-2024. Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Washington and NOAA Alaska Fishery Science Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

  • Designed and optimized flexible, efficient framework for fishery-independent surveys in the Bering Sea.

  • Addressed survey challenges related to limited resources and shifting species distributions under rapidly changing environmental conditions.

  • Simulated future climate scenarios to assess impacts.

  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to support adaptive survey design and ecosystem-based management.

  • Wrote scientific reports and research manuscripts.
     

2019-2022. Research Assistant, IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

  • Updated and validated the ecosystem model of the West Florida Shelf using a spatiotemporal framework.

  • Applied multiple species distribution modeling approaches to improve the accuracy of ecosystem predictions.

  • Quantified red tide-related mortality for reef fish species and assessed ecosystem-level impacts.

  • Developed an interactive R Shiny application to visualize and communicate red tide effects to stakeholders.

  • Assessed parametrization of natural mortality in stock assessment models.

  • Wrote scientific reports and research manuscripts.
     

2016-2019. Research Assistant, Ecopath International Initiative, Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Contributed to the development of a comprehensive diet and growth parameter database for marine organisms.

  • Co-authored a standardized protocol for estimating production and consumption rates across marine species.

  • Developed and calibrated ecosystem models for Marine Protected Areas in the NW Mediterranean and deep-sea Arctic ecosystems using Ecopath with Ecosim

  • Wrote scientific reports and research manuscripts.
     

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