I graduated (2002) and obtained a PhD degree (2008), both in Biology, at University of Vigo. During the PhD studies I completed several stays at international research institutions (Newcastle University with a Marie Curie training site grant; UNAM, México; Berkeley, California University). I have 12 years of international postdoctoral research experience. I did my first post-doc (October 2008 – December 2010) at Cornell University (USA),followed by a second post-doc (April 2011 – April 2015) and an Auxiliary Researcher position (May 2015 – April2021) at CIBIO (Porto University, Portugal). I am an evolutionary biologist interested in conducting integrative research to better understand how complex traits evolve in nature, and the eco-evolutionary implications of novel traits. My research interests have been focused on the study of mechanistic forces involved in diversification and differentiation processes at both genetic and phenotypic levels. During my research trajectory I gained solid background and multidisciplinary skills in the fields of integrative phylogeography and landscape genetics (combining spatial genetics, genomics and ecological analysis), which allow me to decipher the underlying processes (i.e. neutral or adaptive) involved in current patterns of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in several organisms. I have attained the following achievements during the last years, among others: i)Publication record: I published 93 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 72 of them in SCI journals (47 papers in Q1), including top-ranked journals as Nature Ecology & Evolution; Biological Reviews; Global ChangeBiology; Molecular Ecology (3); Molecular Ecology Resources (2); Scientific Reports (2); Journal of Biogeography(7); Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution (3); Conservation Biology; Journal of Applied Ecology; Heredity;Diversity & Distributions (2); PLoS One (2), Biological Conservation. I also published 3 book chapters. My work has been presented in 74 communications in international and national congresses. I am the first or senior author in ca. 70% of the publications, accumulating over 1.550 citations, h-index = 23, I-index = 43 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qkDDzm4lBwsC&hl=en; accessed 03 December 2020). Follow the link to my personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/velo-anton/home ii)Attraction of competitive national and international funding: with three main projects as PrincipalInvestigator supporting my current research line (EVOVIV [80K €]; SALOMICS [245K €]; ANTHROPOHIBIAN[250K €]. iii) Advanced training of human resources: supervision of 6 PhD thesis (3 completed and 3 in progress), 17 MSc students, and 2 internships completed, from four European countries. iv) Internationalisation of research. I have and extensive multidisciplinar, international and long-lasting collaboration networks, with researchers from 15 institutions and 9 countries: Portugal (CIBIO); Spain (CSIC;UAM; U. Vigo; U. Oviedo); USA (Berkeley-UCAL; Smithsonian Museum); Australia (Australian National University;The University of Queensland); France (CNRS); Germany (Braunschweig and Dresden University); Denmark,(University of Copenhagen); Morocco (Abdelmalek Essaadi and Cadi Ayyad University); Poland (Jagiellonian University). v) Outreach activities: I contributed with newspaper interviews, popular science magazines (Quercus), courses,and a documentary (The last urban dragons) to attract media coverage to my work and to reach a wider and general audience. vi) Position as Associate Editor in the SCI-journal Amphibia-Reptilia; and served as reviewer for over 20scientific journals (e.g. Molecular Ecology, Scientific Reports, Journal of Biogeography, Heredity, BiologicalConservation, among others).