I am an Assistant Professor at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. I am a Spanish molecular archaeologist and organic geochemist with a background in human evolution. Before moving to Denmark, I was a postdoc at MIT in the Summons Lab investigating lipids using combined mass spectrometric techniques. I first joined the team as a NASA Astrobiology postdoctoral fellow investigating the paleoenvironment of early human sites at Olduvai Gorge, but I also participated in Mars analogue experiments for the Mars Science Laboratory. I am a co-founder of the Global Microbiome Conservancy, a non-profit collaboration between scientists and communities around the world to collect and preserve the full biodiversity of human gut microbes for future generations.
I joined the Globe Institute in 2019 with a MSCA postdoctoral fellowship (Mind the Gut) to study mummified fecal matter using a multiomics approach. I am now an Assistant Professor at the section of Evolutionary Hologenomics, with a second MSCA-IF (CessOmics) centered around the biomolecuar study of cesspits, with an enphasis on the viral and bacterial fraction of the microbiome.
In the news!!
I participated in the documentary series Connected, hosted by Latif Nasser on Netflix.