Graduate of Science (Biology) in the specialty of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1988. Introduction to Research grant in 1987/88 academic year. Predoctoral Fellow at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Biochemistry internship assistant. Scholar with a grant associated with a Serono-University of León Coordinated Research Project at the Department of Ecology, Genetics and Microbiology of University of León based on the development of vectors for the secretion of polypeptidic hormones in Streptomyces. Honorary Collaborator between 1989 and 1991. CSIC Research Assistant at the Rhizosphere Genetic Ecology Group belonging to Zaidín Experimental Station (Granada) (1992) in the Department of Soil Microbiology and Symbiotic Systems. Doctorate from the University of Granada in 1996. Large Scale Facility Grant in 1999 in SILVOLAB-GUYANE, Kourou, French Guiana for the study of molecular microbial diversity in soils from French Guiana and the rhizosphere of Dicorynia guianensis. Medium Degree Specialist Technician in 2005 and Specialized Higher Graduate in 2010.

He has supervised 3 final master’s projects in recent years. Professor of the courses «Metagenomics and genomics of rhizobacteria» belonging to the official Master of «Biotechnology» and «Biology and Molecular Ecology of bacteria of agroforestry interest” belonging to the official Master of “Genetics and Evolution», both from the University of Granada, where we introduce students to the use of various computer tools for the analysis of metagenomic sequences obtained by Illumina massive sequencing. Professor of the BioLink Cost Action Training School «Soil Biodiversity in Tree Crops» held at the CIHEAM-IAMB in Bari, Italy, in September 2017. Currently his work is directed to the study of the metagenome and the metranscriptome of various forest and agricultural ecosystems associated with the roots of plants of agroforestry interest (quercines, olive trees, pine, …).