I’m researcher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili since 2000, currently ascribed to the “Institut catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social”(IPHES). I am part of the Atapuerca research team since 1989, but in recent years I also took part in several research projects on the prehistory of Chile, Mexico and Eritrea.

My current research is focused on the following topics:

• Prehistoric lithic technology: stone tools analysis, mainly from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites

• First settlement of Eurasia: The first human dispersals in Europe and Asia, including the analysis of archaeological materials from the oldest sites of Europe.

• Bibliometrics: Analysis and evaluation of scientific production related to prehistoric archaeology and human evolution.

As a result of my research, I’ve published more than 200 scientific papers. Among these papers stands out 59 publications in journals indexed by WoS /Scopus, such as: Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Journal of Human Evolution, Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Radiocarbon or Scientometrics (h-index= 22, according to WOS; and h-index = 35, according to Google Scholar)

I teach two courses in the Erasmus Mundus International Master “Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution”: Prehistory of America  and Prehistory of Asia and Oceania. I'm member of the Academic Committee of the Erasmus Mundus doctoral programme on the Quaternary and Prehistory at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.