• Social impact activities:

* Participation in the organization and implementation of the Science and Art Day for Children "Plantes i petits animals". Workshops on plants and small animals (IBB, May 24, 2025)

- Evaluation activities

         *   Revision of articles for Biological Conservation; BMC Evolutionary Biology; Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society; Collectanea; Diversity and Distributions; Ecology and Evolution; Global Ecology and Biogeography; Journal of Biogeography; Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Molecular Ecology Resources; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; Nature Ecology and Evolution; Nordic Journal of Botany; Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; PLOS ONE; Systematic Botany; Taxon. 

         *   Revision of projects for the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva  (ANEP, Spain) : 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016: for the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain): 2017, 2018, 2020; for the Academy of Sciences of the Czeck Republic; for the Czech Science Foundation GACR (2019); for the German Research Foundation (2019); and for the FWF Austrian Science Fund (2016).

         *   Jury member for the PhD thesis defence of:

                – Laia Barres González (May 2013)

                – José Luis Silva Hernández de Santaolalla (September 2014)

                – Marine Pouget (September 2014)  

                – Rafael Molina Venegas (December 2014)

                – Pau Carnicero Campmany (June 2017)

- Management activities

     *   Member of the Scientific comitee of the Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen (France) since 2022

     *   Secretary of the  Unidad de Botánica de la UAB (1/7/2023-30/7/2024)

*   Member of the PhD Follow-Up Committee of the doctoral programme of Biology and Plant Biotechnology ("Comissió de seguiment del Programa de Doctorat de Biologia i Biotecnologia Vegetal"), courses 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24

       *   Member of the Board Committee of the "VI Jornada científica del Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia" of the UAB (15th June 2021)

       *   Member of the Board Committee of the "V Jornada científica del Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia" of the UAB (4th June 2019)

         *   Member of the Board Committee of the Departament de Biologia Animal, Vegetal i d’Ecologia at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2005-2007), as a representative of the Research Staff in Training.

        *    Secretary (2002-2006) and president (2006-2007) of the Club Alpí Universitari

        *    Participation in the project "Expedició solidària - Muntanyes del Rwenzori"  (2006)

- Accreditations

    * Qualified to be lecturer ("Profesor Lector" y "Profesor Contratado Doctor") by the ANECA (Spain)

    * Qualified to be lecturer ("Maître de Conferences") by the Ministère de L'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (France)

- Member of scientific association:

* Sociedad Española de Botánica since 2024

- Attended courses and workshops 

* Curs "Viquipèdia: com promoure continguts acadèmics lliures en el marc docent universitari". Organised by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. July 2021

*   Creació, Gestió i Activitats de grups en aules Moodle [RECURSOS TECNOLÒGICS PER L’APRENENTATGE I LA INNOVACIÓ DOCENT] (4 hours). Organised by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. July 2019

       *   DNA Metabarcoding: bioinformatic and statistic skills by Dr. Fred Boyer (10 hours). January 2016. Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine.

         *   Marine Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics (24 hours). October 2014. Universidade de Vigo.

         *   Computational Methods in Macroevolutionary Analysis by Dr. Dan Rabosky (6 hours). June 2014.University of Zurich.         

         *   Analysis of NGS data from Non-Model Organisms. (22 hours). June 2012. Organised by the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

         *   Interacciones Bióticas en Montaña. Su papel en el mantenimiento de la 

diversidad frente a cambios globales (20 hours). July 2011. Organised by the University of Zaragoza.

         *  Phylogeographical Analysis - Workshop and PhD/Master course (2 weeks). February 2008. Organised by  Dr. Dorothee Ehrich (University  of Tromsø, 

Norway) and Dr. Andreas Tribsch (University of Salzburg).

- Participation in other associations:

         *   2002-2006: Secretary of the Club Alpí Universitari

         *   2006-2008: President of the Club Alpí Universitari  

- Languages

         *   Catalan: native level (Certificate of proficiency, level D)

         *   Spanish: native level

         *   French: native level (C2, Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française, 94/100)

         *   English: advanced level (C1, Certificate in Advanced English)

         *   Italian: intermediate level          

         *   Modern Greek: basic level (A1)

- (Some) interests

         *   Mountaineering sports: trekking, rock climbing, ski touring

         *   Travelling and contacting new cultures. Main travels (out of Europe): Jordan (Wadi Rum), Morocco (Middle and High Atlas), Tanzania (Kilimanjaro), India (Ladakh region), Uganda (Rwenzori massif), Mexico, Perú, Bolívia, Algeria (Hoggar massif), United States (Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Rocky Mountains National Park), New Zealand, Canary Islands (la Gomera, el Hierro), Madeira, Patagonia.

         *   Photography           

                See pictures from the wonderful flora and landscape of Rwenzori mountains here (some photos are mine and others are from Arnaud Pecher).