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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.

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.