Research Interests

Main Research Interests

Evolution of herpetofauna during the Quaternary in the Mediterranean Bassin

Systematic Paleontology and Taxonomy, Osteology

Paleoclimatology of the Quaternary using fossil herpetofauna

Reconstruction of Quaternary paleoenvironments

Climatic and ecological context of human evolution

Biotic responses to climatic and environmental changes

Extinction of amphibians and squamates during the Quaternary

Projects

● "Integrative Pleistocene high-resolution terrestrial climate reconstruction based on small vertebrates and inferences for human paleoecology in Southwestern Europe: the case of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)". IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 91685821 at Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Group, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology (HEP), University of Tübingen, Institute for Geoscience, Tübingen, Germany.

● "Human Paleoecology of the Plio-Pleistocene (PalHum)". AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya, 2017SGR-859. IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona.

● Coordinator of paleoecological studies "Primeras ocupaciones humanas y contexto paleoecológico a partir de los depósitos pliopleistocenos de la Cuenca de Guadix-Baza. Zona Arqueológica de la Cuenca de Orce (Granada, España)". Junta de Andalucia. IP: Juan Manuel Jiménez-Arenas, Universidad de Granada.

● "Crisis climáticas del Pleistoceno inferior y medio y su incidencia en la evolución de las comunidades de microvertebrados del Levante español". Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, CGL2016-80000-P. IP: Jordi Agustí, ICREA-IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.

● "Amphibians and reptiles from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene of Belgium" Synthesys BE-TAF-5469. IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona.

● "Osteological differences between Bufo bufo and Bufo spinosus" Synthesys BE-TAF-4385. IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona.

● "Osteology of European green frogs (Pelophylax, Amphibia)". Synthesys DE-TAF-3244. IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona.

● "Paleoecología humana del Plio-Plistocè". Generalitat de Catalunya, SGR2014-901. IP: Jordi Agustí, ICREA-IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.

● “Human Presence and paleoecological context in the continental Guadix-Baza Basin. Study and interpretation from the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary deposits of Orce (Granada, Spain)”. Junta de Andalucía, B120489SV18BC. IPs: Robert Sala, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona & Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, ICREA-IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.

● “Faunal dispersions and climatic evolution in the Western Mediterranean terrestrial ecosystems during the Early Pleistocene”. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, CGL2012-38358. IP: Jordi Agustí, ICREA-IPHES, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona.

● “Paleontological study and preparation of the microvertebrates from the Pliocene of Camp dels Ninots, Girona”. Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación, CGL2011-13293-E/BTE. IP: Hugues-Alexandre Blain, IPHES, Tarragona.