I am a primatologist, currently a lecturer at the University of Barcelona - Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, at the Faculty of Psychology.
I am interested in the study of living primates, including behavioral and morphological adaptations, and their interactions with the habitat; in particular feeding ecology, growth and development.
Nowadays I am also a Co-Director of the Research Department of the Jane Goodall Institute - Spain.
My current research is focused in these main projects:
- Dental ecology of living primates in order to elucidate which factors explain the tooth wear and microwear patterns, both in well-known and anonymous primates.
- Growth and development of wild mountain gorillas monitored by the Karisoke Research Center in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, in collaboration with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and the GW Primate Life History Lab., where I am a research associate.
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Support ecological and behavioral data collection, and data analyses on behavioral ecology of the chimpanzee population of Dindefelo, Senegal, as well as other primate species.
