Main affiliation: University of Seville (Spain)

After finishing his master, Juan kept collaborating with the Marine Biology Laboratory of the Department of Zoology of the University of Seville, were he started his PhD in 2018 in the framework of a grant from the Spanish Government. His PhD is scoped to the topic of the ecological impacts of hard coastal defense structures, particularly marinas, on the coastal marine communities and is titled "The Importance of Marinas in the Establishment and Dispersion of Invasive Species". Juan's PhD is supervised by prof. José Manuel Guerra-García, with Dr. Free Espinosa Torre and prof. José Carlos García-Gómez as co-supervisors.