• 2002: BSc degree in Biology, Universidad de Córdoba (with Extraordinary Prize of Degree).
• 2003-2006: University Staff Training grant in the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC) (Extraordinary prize of Doctorate in Experimental Sciences 2007).
• 2007-2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom).
• 2009-2012: Posdoctoral Researcher “Juan de la Cierva”, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC).
• 2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO), Vairao (Portugal).
• 2013-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher “Severo Ochoa”, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC).
• 2017-present: Postdoctoral Researcher of the SECTI (IREC-UCLM).

My research can be framed in the fields of Behavioral Ecology and Ecophysiology. I am particularly interested on the physiological mechanisms that underlie different behaviours andlife-history trade-offs of animals. In particular, my work focuses on clarifying the proximate factors that constrain and modulate reproduction, development and expression of quality signals. Among these mechanisms, I pay particular attention to those involving the endocrine system and oxidative stress. Birds are my principal study models in these topics, particularly the Red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa), the Spotless starling(Sturnus unicolor) and the pied Flycatcher(Ficedula hypoleuca).