My research field are Geomicrobiology and Marine Microbiology in which I study the diversity, metabolism, and evolution of marine microbes and their contribution to biogeochemical cycles. I also focus on the study of the biological sources of organic biomarkers to make better constraints of the predictive power of these molecules to reconstruct past environmental conditions. This research addresses key questions of different disciplines such as paleoclimatology, paleobiology, (biogeo)chemistry, limnology, microbiology, metagenomics, molecular evolution, among others. 

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