He graduated in Biology from University of Granada, got his MSC in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology in the university Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and obtained a PhD degree from Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic), where afterwards continued as technician in data analysis. He also collaborates with the PECBMS coordination group within the Czech Ornithological Society (CSO – Czech Republic), as programmer and developer of new tools for the data analysis. His research is mainly focus in the evolutionary ecology of birds and their conservation.