He is a Doctor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University Forestry and Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Princeton Environmental Institute (EEUU), CNRS (France), the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Bordeaux-INRA (France) and University of Stirling (UK). He is a researcher of INIA and has been Director of CIFOR-INIA. His research area is mathematical and computational ecology as a tool to understand the functioning of socio-ecosystems and design sustainable solutions to current environmental and social conflicts. He has coordinated more than fifteen research projects at both national and international levels in the field of Global Change and Adaptation to Climate Change. He has published more than 100 articles in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, Nature communications, Scientific Reports, etc. He is currently a Full Professor at the University with five six-year terms (research and transfer) and the coordinator of the UAH Research group “FORECO, Forest Ecology and Restoration” and coordinator of the Interuniversity PhD program in Ecology, conservation and restoration of ecosystems.