Graduated in Biological Sciences by the Universidade da Coruña (UDC) in 1999. Ph.D. in Biology (Earth and Environmental Sciences) by UDC in 2004, obtaining the Special Award for my thesis. I have spent my career working on aspects related to the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. After defending my PhD, I continued working at the Soil Science department of the UDC for four years, carrying out research on soil erosion, soil microbial ecology and agrometeorology, while developing several short research stays in Canada (University of Guelph, 5 months) and Brazil (UNESP, 3 months).

In 2008-2009, I was a post-doctorate in the Plant and Horticultural crops Systems (PSH) unit at the INRA center in Avignon (France), where I worked on calibrating and validating a virtual fruit-tree model (for which I also developed a module for calculating radiation interception) within the framework of a European project. This allowed me to integrate knowledge from different disciplines in order to answer questions about the influence of agricultural practices on crop yield and quality, which has been one of my research lines ever since.

In 2010, I joined the viticulture department of the Estación de Viticultura e Enoloxía de Galicia (EVEGA-AGACAL) through an Isidro Parga Pondal contract of the Xunta de Galicia. There, I coordinated a project about the influence of irrigation and soil management on grapevine performance and wine quality. During this period, I also worked on other aspects of viticulture such as canopy management, while I gained experience on enological research. 

Then, in 2015, I worked at the CEBAS and the University of Santiago de Compostela on projects related with vineyard management, precision agriculture and assessment of crop water needs. I developed a model for determining vegetable crop water requirements to advice for efficient irrigation management. This model has been registered as an industrial secret (I am one of the inventors) and it is now exploited by Hispatec S.L.

After a two-months job at the INRA in 2017, I joined the Agroforestry Engineering department of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC) where I acted as a research associate in a couple of projects aiming at using new technologies for irrigation management in vineyards.

In 2019, I got back to CEBAS for a contract within a project aiming at improvement soil management practices for reducing erosion risks.

Currently, from November 2019, I am a researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (CITA) in Zaragoza, within the Soils and Irrigation Unit. My research line is devoted to the agronomy of irrigated crops. At the moment, I am starting a research line on water management of fruit trees and I am planning to extend this line to other crops. Moreover, I will continue working on modelling plant physiology.

As an overview, some data on my research experience: 65 articles in impact factor journals (22 of them included in the first quartile of their corresponding categories), more than 200 communications in congresses (either national or international), more than two years of experience in research institutes abroad (Brazil, Canada, France and Uruguay), coordinator of a research project and participant in 20 projects, co-supervisor of 5 PhD thesis, reviewer for more than 60 journals and evaluator of project proposals. I have also co-edited Special Issues on two journals: Frontiers in Environmental Science and Water.