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I obtained a PhD in Plant Ecophysiology from the University of Barcelona and CIMMYT where I studied the use of stable isotopes to assess plant performance and stress adaptation in different cereal species under controlled conditions and in the field.

Since September 2013 I am the technical coordinator of the PHENOARCH high-throughput plant phenotyping platform where I develop and combine tools and methods to characterize the environmental conditions as sensed by individual plants and to estimate plant growth, architecture and transpiration, with the final aim to extract valuable traits that can be used in crop modelling and genetics.

I am also a technical coordinator across the French Plant Phenotyping Network.

Academic Background

• PhD Thesis "Carbon and Oxygen Stables Isotopes as Ecophysiological Tools in Cereal Breeding" at the Plant Biology Department of the Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Catalunya. Supervised by Dr. S Nogués and Prof. JL Araus. June 2010.
• Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Biology, July 2006.
• B.Sc. in Biology specialized in Agro-Food and Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona, February 2005.
• Teaching accreditation title (CAP) at the Institute of Education Sciences of University of Barcelona, May 2005.

Stays in internationally recognized centers

 Visiting Scientist at:

• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) México, February-April 2009
• Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (CORPOICA), Colombia, July 2008
• Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari (IAMB) Italy, May 2008
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) México, February-April 2008
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) México, August-December 2007
• University of Bologna, Italy, May 2007
• Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari (IAMB) Italy, May 2007
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) Morocco, April 2007
• Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute (LARI) Lebanon, May 2006
• International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) Syria, May 2006
• International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) Syria, May 2005
• University of Balearic Islands (UIB) at the Plant Ecophysiology group of the Dr. H Medrano, Spain, July 2002

 Other merits

 Consultant Scientist of:

• Global Maize Program (M0140.01.01), (CIMMYT) México, Dec-Jan 2009
• Global Maize Program (M0140.01.01), (CIMMYT) México, Feb-Apr 2008

Grants:

• 03/2006-03/2010: PhD Fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (AP2005-4965).
• Travel grant (2009) by the University of Barcelona
• Travel grant (2007) by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

Awards:

• Shared award to the best oral presentation (£250) at the “The Rank Prize Funds-Mini-Symposium on High Sustainable Cereal Yields Under Drought”, Grasmere, UK, November 2008.