I received my PhD from the University of Oviedo, where I studied plankton ecology and population dynamics in the Cantabrian Sea, especially focusing on the copepod genus Clausocalanus. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Connecticut, I began investigating the spatial and temporal patterns of genetic variation in marine organisms, especially calanoid copepods, contributing to several publications on the phylogeny, taxonomy and phylogeography of this group. In 2015 I joined the Faculty at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, now part of Arizona State University.  Combining morphological and molecular tools, I am broadly interested in the diversity of the oceans, how it is created and maintained through eco-evolutionary processes, and its influence in biogeochemical cycles.