2015-present Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Spain
2010 – 2015 Senior Researcher Ramón y Cajal Program, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
2013 Fulbright Research Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2007 – 2010 Postdoctoral (Juan de la Cierva Program), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2009 Visiting Scholar. SUMAC - Stanford University, USA U-Pb (SHRIMP) / Trace Elements analysis
2005 – 2007 Postdoctoral, EPS- University of California - Berkeley, USA
2004 Ph.D. Geology (Tectonics). Summa Cum Laude University of Salamanca, Spain
La Unidad de Fornás: Evolución tectonometamórfica del SO del Complejo de Órdenes
Tectonothermal evolution of the SW Ordenes Complex (Iberian Massif)
Advisor: J.R. Martínez Catalán (U. Salamanca)
Co-advisors: R. Arenas (U.Complutense), F. Díaz García (U. Oviedo) (deceased).
Visiting Scholar. University of Liverpool, UK. SEM-EBSD analysis
2003 M.Sc. Structural Geology Summa Cum Laude University of Salamanca, Spain:
Caracterización Cinemática del contacto inferior de la Unidad de Fornás (Complejo de Órdenes NW del M.Ibérico)
Kinematic analysis of the Fornás Unit lower contact (Ordenes Complex, NW Iberia)
Advisor: J.R. Martínez Catalán (U. Salamanca)
Co-advisors: R. Arenas (U.Complutense), F. Díaz García (U. Oviedo) (deceased).
2001 Visiting Scholar. Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands. Ar/Ar Geochronology.
1998 B.Sc. Geology (Structural Geology-Petrology) University of Salamanca, Spain
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
- LA SUTURA VARISCA EN EL NO DE IBERIA: CORRELACION A LO LARGO DE LOS ARCOS IBEROARMORICANO
Y CENTROIBERICO; EDADES, MECANISMOS Y MODELOS. CGL2016-78560-P. MINECO. 2016 - Texture analysis of ultramafic fault rocks: exploring the seismic anisotropy of subduction systems. CELLS ALBA synchrotron-MINECO. 2015
- Rheology of the lower crust: Quantitative Texture Analysis of High Pressure – High Temperature rocks from Alps and Iberian Variscan belt. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).2014
- REGISTRO REOLOGICO, CONVERGENCIA Y COLISION EN EL NO DE IBERIA: CLAVES PARA LA DINAMICA DE PLACAS. (CGL2011-22728) DGI-MICIN.
- Correlation between shape and lattice preferred orientation in high-pressure rocks: new insights about the deformation mechanisms during ductile flow and the seismic failure along the subduction cannel. Elettra sincrotrone (Triestre). 2011.
- De Rodinia a Pangea: 1100 Ma de Historia Geológica del Basamento del NW de Iberia (CGL2007-65338-CO2-017/BTE – CONSOLIDER) DGI-MEC.
- Geocronología y geoquímica de elementos traza en circones de rocas de alta presión y temperatura de los complejos alóctonos del noroeste. (Gr58/08) CSIC-UCM-BSCH.
- Texture analysis of high-pressure rocks with the HIPPO-TOF neutron diffractometer: ductile flow and seismic failure along the subduction channel. (S2080). Los Álamos National Laboratory, USA.
- TOF neutron diffraction analysis of mylonitic amphibolites. (SO 434/2007). Los Álamos National Laboratory, USA.
- X-ray Synchrotron comparative analysis of human bone and biomaterials. (EC135/2007). European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France).
- Preferred Orientation and Residual Strains in Human Femur and Ti-Hydroxyapatite Functional Graded Materials (FGM): A hard X-ray Synchrotron Radiation study. (GUPid 69457/2007). Advanced Photon Source (APS) – Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
- Texture analysis of Quartz-mylonites with the HIPPO-TOF neutron diffractometer at LANSCE. (SO437/2006). Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.
- TOF neutron diffraction analysis of experimentally deformed anorthite aggregates in diffusion creep. (SO433/2006) Los Álamos National Laboratory, USA.
- ¿Un Arco de Islas Emplazado en Galicia? Las Unidades Superiores de los Complejos Alóctonos del Noroeste (BTE-2001-0963-C02-01), DGI-MEC.
- Procesos Subductivos, metamorfismo de Alta Presión y dinámica inicial de la cuña Varisca en el NW del Macizo Ibérico (PB97-0234-C02). DGES-MEC.
