I was born in Girona in 1976. I graduated in 1998 and obtained my PhD in Biology in November 2003 at University of Girona. After that I was a postdoc at the University of Oslo (2006) and the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark (2006-2008). From 2009 to 2012, I worked as a research scientist at the European Commission-Joint Research Centre (Italy). In 2012, I was hired  at University of Vic in order to create a new research group on Aquatic ecology. In 2013, I obtained a Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship to work at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). I have also been a Visiting Scientist at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey. In September 2015 I was appointed ICREA Research professor.

Research interests

A key focus of my research is the response of aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity to global changes, particularly the combination of climate change with other anthropogenic stressors. My research is holistic including the whole trophic structure. I focus on different aquatic ecosystems and I use complementary approaches (experiments, latitudinal comparisons, theoretical ecology). I conducted research evidencing the negative effects of the combined increased temperature, salinity and drought on the food web and biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems. We showed that warming and the associate changes in the top-down control will benefit small organisms across the food web with negative consequences for ecosystem health. We also found that temperature strongly influences most components of fish taxonomic and functional diversity at macroecological scale, emphasizing its importance in determining aquatic biodiversity.