BioI completed a B.Sc. in Biology (2008), followed by an M.Sc. in Biodiversity (2009) at Universities in Barcelona. Subsequently, I started a Ph.D. in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) of Barcelona, supervised by Xavier Bellés, addressing questions related to the origin and evolution of insect metamorphosis under a evodevo framework (2014). In 2015, I obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Bristol to study the origin and early evolution of arthropods using a molecular palaeobiological approach, merging fossil and molecular information, supervised by Davide Pisani. Since then, bridging the gap between macroevolutionary studies led by molecular biologists and palaeontologists has become central tenet in my research. I came back to Barcelona since 2017 through a diverse competitive fellowships to develop a research program on the origin of animals and terrestrailization processes, and at present I am a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Barcelona.
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