Teaching

I have been teaching regularly at the Universitat de Barcelona since 2008, but started teaching as a PhD student in 2002. I like teaching, and love teaching some subjects (I hope my students noticed!)

My main teaching areas are:

• Botany (Biology, 2nd year): This is the one I enjoy most, perhaps because it was the one that caught my attention as an undergraduate student, when I was still thinking that I would devote myself to the study of fishes (!)

• Population biology (Biology, 3rd year): The Agroecology group started as a Plant Population Biology group a long time ago, and thus we still contribute to this subject.

• Biogeography (Biology, 3rd year): It's been some time since I have not joined the teaching team for this one on a regular basis, but it is an enjoyable subject in which we deal with vegetation distribution and its linkage with functional ecology.

• GIS (Master): I have been lucky to be part of the quartet Aaron Pérez-Haase + Estela Illa + Enric Batllori + me; we constitute a group of four GIS users with very different focus and skills.

• Introduction to R (Master): Such is life…

• Field course on terrestrial plant and animal diversity (Master): Partnering two zoologists, two botanists spend four days working on plant communities and diversity in the Pyrenees.

• Biodiversity Evaluation (Master): I collaborate with Miquel Salicrú at the computer lab sessions on numerical methods to quantify and statistically compare biodiversity mesures.

• Vegetation Analysis and Landscape Ecology (Master): I have a minor role in this one, mainly for landscape ecology and GIS labs.

• Final project (Environmental Sciences and Biology undergraduate program): I supervise students for these undergraduate studies programs, on a regular basis; if you're a student interested in any of my research areas, please contact me.

I also engage in some "teaching" activities far less academic like the Botanical Tours at the historical building of the Universitat de Barcelona. The garden (originally designed for teaching at university level) provides an excellent environment to interact with plant enthusiasts of all ages: