I am a conservation biologist, especially interested on how to best manage threats to the persistence of biodiversity under dynamic conditions and limited resources. My work involves an interdisciplinary approach, from ecology to mathematics and computing science, to understand the ecological and socio-economic problems behind the decline of biodiversity and ecosystem services and provide novel methods and tools to address them. I am currently leading the Environmental Decision-making research group, focused on the evaluation of the adequacy of policy and management efforts to halt biodiversity loss and the development of data to help make better informed decisions. I finished my PhD in 2008, focused on the assessment of ecological health of Mediterranean rivers and the spatial allocation of conservation efforts. As part of my PhD, I developed a fish-based index to evaluate the ecological status of Mediterranean rivers and help implement the European Water Framework Directive in these systems. I also started studying the effect of habitat degradation in conjunction with invasive species on native freshwater fish diversity, to try to identify the causes of the rapid decline experienced in the last decades. During my 6 years of Postdoctoral experience in Australia (2009-2014, University of Queensland and Griffith University) I contributed to the implementation of systematic approaches to conservation planning in freshwater ecosystems. I focused on demonstrating new ways of addressing the especial needs of freshwater ecosystems (e.g., ecosystem processes) and led the development of novel approaches to enhancing the capacity of systematic conservation planning to identify priority areas that protect freshwater biodiversity. My contribution to this field has taken me to a leading role worldwide in collaboration with some other colleagues, such as Simon Linke and Hugh Possingham. In 2015 I started a Ramon y Cajal contract at the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), where I have continued since. During this past 6 years I have continued leading the field of freshwater conservation planning and extended my research lines to integrating terrestrial and freshwater conservation dependencies, making the most of the expertise at CTFC on landscape ecology and forest biodiversity. I have also focused on assessing the adequacy of European policies, explored how to distribute the scarce resources available for conservation and designing networks of Green Infrastructure. Some of these advances have been recognised by the European Environmental Agency on its guidelines on how to implement policy recommendations across the European Union. Since November 2021 I have started a new position as Senior Researcher at the Department of Plant Biology and Ecology of the University of Sevilla. I will be working on the development of a stress-test for the Natura 2000 network to help identify weaknesses and strengths of this network of protected areas in the face of the expected impacts of global change. This project will also help identify priority management efforts to strengthen the role of protected areas for future conservation. I have co-authored >100 publications in peer reviewed journals (>95% of these in the first quartile of their respective fields), like Nature, Science, Science Advances, Global Change Biology, Conservation Letters, Journal of Applied Ecology or Conservation Biology, and led 43 of them. I have also authored 11 book chapters, leading 4 of them. I have participated in 37 research projects, being Principal Investigator in 13 of them, amounting more than 1.2 million euro in the last 5 years. I have supervised or currently supervising 5 PhD students and 12 Master students in different universities in Europe (Spain, Portugal and Germany), Chile and Australia. My research has received 3765 citations resulting in a H-index of 35 and an i-10 index of 84 (google scholar, January 2022).