The Earth has written its own history in thousands of rock pages, the geological record, which contains evidence of the evolution and interactions of continents, oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere. Despite the rock archive is really dismembered, scattered and hidden in remote places or deeply buried, gathering the pieces together is our only opportunity to reveal the history of our planet, our history. I am a researcher who works in structural geology, plate tectonics, paleogeography and Earth history combining field geology, paleomagnetism, isotopic methods (U-Pb, Ar-Ar, Lu-Hf, Sm-Nd, O and H) and modeling (numerical and analog).
I completed my Ph.D. at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) in 2012. Since then and until 2016 I was a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). Later I obtained the prestigious JSPS postdoctoral fellow (Japan Society for Promotion of Science grant, successful rate <10%) to study the tectonic evolution of the Paleotethys and Panthalassa oceans interface during the Pangea amalgamation.
PhD in Geology, 2012
Universidad de Salamanca
Licenciado (BSc+MSc) in Geology, 2009
Universidad de Salamanca
My particular rock and roll hall of fame
An online “Bayesian Approach for Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages”
Informal research project on kinematics of various curved mountain belts
An online open acces software for paleomagnetic analyses
An outreach podcast about geology and geologists
Subduction processes from the Pacific ocean, with especial attention to tectonic erosion in Paleozoic times.