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Administrative duties

Peer review for journals: Anthropocene, Ecosystems, Environmental Archaeology, Global and Planetary Change, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Quaternary International, Quaternary Research, Quaternary Science Reviews, The Holocene, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Peer review for Funding bodies: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Swiss National Science Foundation, European Science Foundation, German Science Foundation, Czech Science Foundation, Latvian Council of Science
Guess editor: I am currently co-editing as a guess editor a special issue for Environmental Archaeology

29 March 2019 – TM Hoyle, PhD dissertation: "Biotic Change and Landlocked Seas : Ecosystem responses to climate and sea level variability in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Pontocaspian basins". Utrecht University, The Netherlands
31 January 2014 – E Fierro Enrique. PhD dissertation: “Paleoambientes en el sureste de España: nuevos datos palinológicos y discusión en el contexto de la Península Ibérica”. Universidad de Murcia, Spain
17 February 2012 – R Tallón Armada. MPhil dissertation: “Marco evolutivo dunha explotación salineira de época romana (Vigo, Pontevedra)”. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

June 2021 I coordinated a session in the Landscape Archaeology Conference 2020 (Madrid) together with Drs Olalla López-Costas and Noemí Silva Sánchez. Title: “Understanding environments and lifestyle during Roman times throughout multidisciplinary studies”
Workshop: Miners, metallurgists and their cultural and physical environment: an intimate long-term relationship. Brunel University London (UK), 2017, 2 days
Workshop: Caspian Sea level changes. Brunel University London (UK), 2013, 2 days
Workshop USC-Galician Network on Heritage Research: Anthropocene: Linking pollen and geochemistry research. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 2010, 3 days
Joint Workshop USC-CSIC: Multiproxy records of environmental change. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 2008, 3 days

4 October 2019 – Intríngulis del análisis polínico en contextos arqueológicos. VI Jornadas de Arqueometría en Galicia [info]. Facultade de Xeografía e Historia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
1 February 2017 – Palaeoecology: introduction and examples from terrestrial and marine archives useful for conservation and management. Keynote speaker in session “Insights on the fourth dimension: the palaeoecological approach to modern ecological questions and vice versa”. XIV MEDECOS & AEET meeting, Seville (Spain)
6 December 2016 – “Nuts and bolts” of pollen analysis in archaeological contexts. Keynote speaker in WAMPAS - Workshop on the Analysis of Micro Particles in Archaeological Samples. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
1 March 2016 – Applying to The Leverhulme Trust. College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences. Brunel University London (UK)
2 October 2015 – Evaluación del impacto que las sociedades (pre-)históricas ejercieron sobre el paisaje a través del análisis polínico. II Jornadas de Arqueometría en Galicia. Facultade de Xeografía e Historia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
14 August 2015 – Evaluating the impact of human activities using palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Edith Cowan University, Perth (Australia)

The Lived Environment Workshop, 20-21 May 2015, in The Royal Society of London. The AHRC ‘Science in Culture’ theme fosters interdisciplinary work. This workshop was for early career researchers from a wide range of disciplines to identify key future opportunities for interdisciplinary research
Palaeo50: 50 Priority Research Questions in Palaeoecology. The workshop was held at the Biodiversity Institute (University of Oxford) on 13-14 December 2012

21 May 2023 - Interview for a local newspaper (Faro de Vigo) on the work performed at O Areal (Vigo): La historia revelada por las salinas de Areal.
23 November 2022 – Encadre ambiental y arqueolóxico da explotación romana de sal en Vigo. In XXI Xornadas Blanco Freijeiro de Arte, Arqueoloxía e Historia, Concello de Marín (Pontevedra, Spain)
19 November 2019 – Invited expert in the roundtable discussion on ¡Somos lo que comemos! ¿Qué nos queda de la dieta de los Galaicos? within the exhibition "Galaicos, un pueblo entre dos mundos" organised by the Museo de Pontevedra
8 December 2017 – C Fearnley, L López-Merino, N Downing, R Irvine. A glass of whisky could help you get your head around deep time. The Conversation
21 - 23 April 2017 – Deep Time Festival, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
2011 - 2012 – Preparation of material on palaeoenvironment for the Campo Lameiro Rock Art Archaeological Park (Galicia, Spain)
October 2009 – Formative course for the staff of the Picos de Europa National Park (Spain) on Geology, Geomorphology and Global Change in the park since the Last Maximum Glacial
September 2009 - September 2010 – “Ginkgo biloba” weekly radio program at Radio Utopía (North of Madrid). Section about science and humanities advances