Sergio Velasco Ayuso

About me

I am an ecologist with a research interest in the interaction among climate, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. My main goal is to understand the responses of ecosystem functioning to undergoing climate change, focusing on biodiversity. I am particularly interested in microbial communities because microorganisms are the most abundant and phylogenetically and functionally diverse communities in our planet. Using a variety of field-collected and available long-term data, I try to determine the role of microorganisms in the functioning of ecosystems, but also how climate and other big-scale dynamic factors shape the structure and diversity of microbial communities. Although I conduct my research in terrestrial ecosystems, mainly drylands, due to my background in aquatic ecology, I am also interested in aquatic ecosystems, principally groundwaters [iCEB Lab]

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I graduated in Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). After completing a Master in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the same university, I obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences with a thesis focused on spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial communities of groundwaters. I was later four years working as an environmental technician at the Spanish Environmental Ministry, centered on biological and chemical quality of inland water bodies. I then got a research position at the University of Granada (Spain), where I studied the effects of global change stressors on microbial trophic networks of Mediterranean, high-mountain lakes. After this, I obtained a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University (USA), where I was working in a project whose main goal was to facilitate the recovery of degraded arid and semi-arid lands by restoring biocrust microbial communities. Later, I accepted a lecturing and postdoctoral research position at the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) to investigate the effects of nutrient inputs, precipitation patterns and land-use on soil microbial communities of the Pampa and Patagonia regions. Currently, I am an Assistant Researcher at the Argentinean Council for Scientific and Technology Research and I work within the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies based at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where I also teach Biometry for undergraduate students as a Lecturer [Complete CV]

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