EDUCATION

2018 | Ph.D. Geochemistry and Volcanology at Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. 

• Thesis: “Experimental determination and modelling of chemical diffusion between magmas with contrasting compositions and implications for timescales of magma mixing”. Advisors: D. Perugini, H. Behrens, F. P. Vetere.

2011 | M.Sc. Geological Resources and Geotechnics at Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. 

• Thesis: "Petrología y geoquímica de las rocas metabásicas de Zarza la Mayor-Ceclavín (Cáceres)". Advisor: L. G. Corretgé

2009 | B.Sc. Geology. Universidad de Oviedo, Spain. 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2024 | DAAD Research Stay for University Academics and Scientists, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

2020 | Alexander von Humboldt Posdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

2019 | Travel grant for early career researchers, Spanish Society of Mineralogy (SEM), for attending Goldschmidt Conference 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Amount. 350€. 

2017 | EAG Sponsored Student, European Association of Geochemistry Travel grant for attending VMSG Conference 2018 (Leeds, UK, 3-5 January 2018). 

2017 | Young Researcher Award, Spanish Society of Mineralogy (SEM). 36th Meeting, Oviedo, Spain, July 2017. 

 PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2024-ongoing | Assistant Professor (PAD). Department of Petrology and Mineralogy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid, Spain.

2020-2023 | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. Institut für Mineraloge, Leibniz Universität Hannover. Hannover, Germany.

2018-2020 | Postdoctoral research fellow. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Torino. Turin, Italy.

2018-2019 | Visiting researcher. Departmeng of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2 months)

2014 - 2018 | PhD candidate. Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. 

2012 –  2013 | R&D Technician. Pasek Minerales, S.A.U. Salinas, Spain.

RELEVANT FIELD EXPERIENCE

Sep 2025 | La Palma, Canary Islands (5 days). Sampling campaign.

Sep 2022 | Eifel volcanic field, Germany (4 days)

Mar 2022| Tenerife and La Palma (Cumbre Vieja 2021 eruption site), Canary Islands (2 weeks). Canary Islands Sampling, physical volcanology. 

Feb 2015 | Ischia Island, Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei  (1 week). Sampling of pyroclastic materials.

Jun 2011  | Pyrenees (Val d’Aran, Jaca Basin). Structural geology, sedimentology. (1 week). MSc fieldtrip.

May 2011 | Cáceres, Spain. Granites of the Iberian Massif. Assistant student. (1 week).

May 2010 | Cáceres, Spain. Sampling metabasic rocks, cartography, granitic geology. (1 week). 5th-year BSc field trip. 

May 2008 | Garrotxa Volcanic Field and Catalan coastal ranges. (4 days). 3rd-year BSc field trip.

PEER REVIEW ACTIVITY

Active Volcanoes of the World Series, Springer

American Mineralogist 

Chemical Geology 

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

European Journal of Mineralogy

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

International Journal of Earth Sciences/Geologische Rundschau 

Journal of Petrology

Volcanica

SUPERVISED STUDENTS

2025 | Katherin Andrea Vega Vasquez (MSc UCM). Evaluation of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) as a petrological monitoring tool: application to volcanic glass from the Cumbre Vieja 2021 eruption (La Palma, Canary Islands). Co-supervised with Álvaro Márquez.

2022 | José Hermida Cerdeiras (BSc/Erasmus, LUH). Petrology and Mineralogy of Lithic Clasts from the El Abrigo Ignimbrite, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

GUEST BLOGS

PostDoc, Petrology and Geochemistry, Diego González García @dgonzalez_83: A Day in the GeoLife Series, in Rock Head Sciences, by Sandie Will.

All things volcanic and magmatic at VMSG 2018, European Association of Geochemistry Blog.