Biologist and interested in global biodiversity and conservation. Actually I have a possition of Assistant Professor in the University of Salamanca collaborating in some international research projects in Europe, tropics, and subtropics. I currently belong to the GIR ‘Biodiversity, Systematics and Conservation of vascular Plants and Fungi’ of the University of Salamanca.
My research area is focused mainly in taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of wood-inhabiting corticioid fungi and polypores. I have published 60 scientific papers of which 40 are ISI-rated papers, 2 new genera and 26 new species to science, and many new taxonomic combinations. One of my most important contribution is the 1000 pages monograph of ‘Corticiaceae s.l.’, published in Fungi Europaei series.
During my doctoral and postdoctoral stages I have visited important institutions in the study of Fungi (University of Bologna, Oslo, Göteborg in Europe, and Patagonian research centre in Argentina and Amazonian research centre in Brazil). I have participate in some collecting trips in South America, Central America, North Africa, and South East Asia.
I participate in international projects regarding diversity and ecology of wood decomposing fungi in native forests of Africa, the Andean-Patagonian region and the Amazonian, habitat fragmentation and pathways to extinction in dead-wood dependent fungi, and studying new species and new distribution patterns revealed by fruitbody surveys and molecular screening.
Regarding scientific divulgation activities I have pronunced numerous invited lectures in different mycological societies in Spain and Europe. I also actively participate in scientific academic divulgation activities of the University of Salamanca with schoolchildren and universitary students. I am member of the Iberian Mycological Society.
If you have some unnamed specimens of corticioid or polypore fungi, please you can send me a duplicate previously contacting me to [email protected]