ICREA Research Professor in Computational and Theoretical Ecology at CEAB-CSIC, holds an associate research position at CREAF. He holds a MSc in Plankton Ecology, and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB). He joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University from 2006 to 2009.

He completed his postdoctoral research on vector-borne diseases at the Climate Catalan Institute (IC3). With a Ramón y Cajal position, he founded his laboratory at CEAB-CSIC, and currently he directs a joint lab with other researchers, named the Theoretical and Computational Ecology Group. In 2018, he was awarded as Distinguished Researcher by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), and by the City Council of Barcelona with the Premi Ciutat Barcelona 2017.