I obtained my PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2009, focusing on the ecology and management of coastal ecosystems and publishing 7 JRC articles. During that period I did a research stay at the University of Algarve (Portugal), where I later (2010-2011) worked on integrated coastal management as a contracted researcher. Then (2011-2012) I came back to the University of Barcelona as an adjunct professor and a contracted researcher and I became interested on freshwater salinisation. I coordinated several mesocosm experiments and published 3 JRC articles, including a review acknowledged as highly cited by the Web of Science. Then I was awarded with a Fulbright Fellowship at the Oregon State University (2012-2014) to asses the impacts of climate change on stream biodiversity. There, I started my own research line on metacommunity ecology (publishing 2 JRC articles) and continued my research on freshwater salinisation (e.g. I created Global Interest Group at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry). By then, I already had a strong and wide scientific network and I had gained international recognition. This allowed me to obtain a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Vic (2014-2016), where I created a research line on freshwater salinisation. I coordinated several experiments, supervised students and led my own research projects. This resulted in 5 JRC articles, including 1 published in the policy forum section of Science. After that (2016-present) I came back to the University of Barcelona, where I worked as a contracted researcher and an adjunct professor, and I was finally hired as a tenure-eligible lecturer professor within the Serra-Hunter talent attraction programme. During this period I have started a research line on biodiversity conservation planning, and I have gained research independency (e.g. leading research projects, supervising students) and international reputation (e.g. plenary/invited talks, editorial activity, scientific advisory boards, media interviews). More recently, I have been awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship by the Spanish Government that will fund my research for the next 5 years starting in May 2022.