My research interest is the interaction between life and its environment across different spatial and temporal scales. I see this process as an eco-evolutionary interdependence between biogeodynamics (transport, storage and reactivity of materials related with life) and the way biodiversity (genes, life forms, species, communities, biomes, cultures) emerges through processes and distributes in the biogeosphere.

 At the ecosystem level, lakes are my research focus. Lakes are hotspots of information in the landscape through the exchange of energy and matter with their catchment and airshed. Therefore, lake dynamics understanding goes far beyond the ecosystem boundaries, becoming an excellent model for investigating relationships across scales, from regional dynamics to the microscopic ecosystems of plankton and biofilms. In addition, lake sediments offer a unique archive of the long-term ecosystem dynamics, hardly available for any other type of ecosystem. Beyond my interest in the fundamentals, the approach has practical implications in the appraisal of current environmental changes and reconstruction of the past. In particular, I have been studying mountain lake ecosystems, mostly in the Pyrenees.

Triggered by the aim of combining observational, experimental and numerical methods, my research becomes intrinsically collaborativen with scientists from several disciplines (biologists, chemists, physicists, geologists, geographers, archaeologists…). Among others, I closely collaborate with the labs involved in the research cluster on Environmental Change Ecology (GECA).