About Me

I am a marine scientist and remote sensing researcher at ICMAN-CSIC, where I develop drone-based tools to observe and understand coastal and oceanic processes that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

My path into ocean science began at the University of Cádiz, where I earned a Bachelor's degree in Marine Sciences and a Master's degree in Oceanography between 2016 and 2019. It was during those years that I first mounted a thermal camera on a drone and realised that the ocean had an entirely new dimension to reveal from above. That curiosity eventually led me to pursue a PhD at ICMAN-CSIC (2020–2024), funded by a Spanish FPU fellowship and enriched by research stays at the University of Malta, Nantes Université, and, through a Fulbright scholarship, the University of Maryland. My thesis, defended in July 2024 with summa cum laude honours, resulted in 17 peer-reviewed publications, ten of them as first author, in leading journals covering ocean colour, coastal ecology, and polar environments.

Today, as a postdoctoral researcher within the Momentum CSIC programme, I lead a research line that integrates artificial intelligence and machine learning with drone-mounted sensors to unravel coastal environmental processes at spatial scales that satellites alone cannot capture. A central focus of my research is developing drone-to-satellite upscaling approaches to bridge the gap between fine-scale observations and regional monitoring, enabling us to investigate some of the most relevant phenomena in tropical and polar coastal ecosystems, including snow algal blooms. This research has already taken me to Antarctica twice, as part of the DICHOSO and POLAROMICS campaigns in 2025 and 2026, and will take me back in 2027 through the AMIGA project, which I currently lead as Principal Investigator (PI) — the first research project for which I have taken on this role. The ocean keeps asking better questions; I keep building sharper tools to answer them.