ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de

Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of

the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also

collaborates with the Centre for Ecology,

Evolution and Environmental Changes of the

University of Lisbon, and the Department of

Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in

Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of

the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.

He studies the effects of current and past

environmental conditions and ecological processes

on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the

role of species niche and ecological interactions

in the organization of biological communities in

time and space, and the use and misuse of

biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed

plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been

studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.