CV

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Education

PhD, Plant Biology and Biotechnology (2024)
CRAG / Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Non-coding regulation of transcription during plant development
Supervisor: Julia Qüesta. Cum Laude, International Doctorate Mention

MSc, Biology (2019)
University of Waterloo, Canada
Investigating the impact of 5’-methylthioadenosine accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Supervisor: Barbara Moffatt. Dean of Science Award

BSc, Honours Biology (2016)
University of Waterloo, Canada

Positions

Postdoctoral Scientist (2024 to present)
The Sainsbury Laboratory, Nobori group, Norwich, UK

International PhD secondment (2024)
Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), ChromD team, France

Research Assistant and PhD researcher (2020 to 2024)
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Epigenetics and Plant Development group, Barcelona, Spain

Bioinformatics Research Assistant (2019 to 2020)
University of Waterloo, Doxey lab, Canada

MSc researcher (2016 to 2019)
University of Waterloo, Moffatt lab, Canada

Summer Research Student (2016)
Heidelberg University, Hell lab, Germany
Ontario/Baden-Württemberg Summer Research Program

Publications

21 peer-reviewed publications, 10 as first or co-first author and 3 as corresponding author, plus a book chapter; full list on the Publications page.

Awards and recognition

  • FPI Doctoral Fellowship, Spanish Ministry, EUR 98,250 (2020–2024)
  • International Doctorate Mention, Autonomous University of Barcelona (2024)
  • Dean of Science Award, University of Waterloo (2019)
  • BBSRC Early Independence Fellowship, shortlisted to full stage (2026)

Mentoring

  • PhD rotation student, Nobori group, The Sainsbury Laboratory (2026)
  • Predoctoral intern, Nobori group, The Sainsbury Laboratory (2024–2025)
  • MSc thesis co-supervisor, CRAG (2022–2023): thesis on antisense long non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis germination; the student is a co-author on our Nature Communications paper
  • Honours thesis mentor for two students, University of Waterloo (2016–2017 and 2018–2019); both are co-authors on our Journal of Experimental Botany paper

Teaching

  • Graduate lecturer, Autonomous University of Barcelona (2023): two weeks of the graduate course Molecular basis of plant development and responses to the environment, on embryo development, germination and dormancy, and epigenetics in development
  • Laboratory teaching assistant, University of Waterloo (2014–2018): five undergraduate courses, from introductory plant biology and cell biology to plant physiology and plant molecular genetics
  • Tutorial teaching assistant, University of Waterloo (2013): molecular biology techniques

Selected talks

  • Resolving the cell state-specific regulatory logic of plant immunity with single-nucleus multiome profiling. Norwich single-cell and spatial symposium, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK (2026)
  • Identification of Arabidopsis transcriptional enhancers during development. EpiPlant2026, Nantes, France (2026)
  • Control of germination by chromatin accessibility and non-coding transcription. 8th European Workshop on Plant Chromatin, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
  • The regulatory landscape of transcription during the seed-to-seedling transition. EpiPlant2022, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (2022)
  • Large-scale analyses of biological sequence motifs with the universalmotif package. BioC2021 (virtual, 2021)
  • Effects of transgenerational spermidine-restoration of fertility in 5’-methylthioadenosine nucleosidase deficient plants. Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Eastern Regional Meeting, London, Canada (2018)

Service

  • Assistant Features Editor, Plant Physiology (2026–2028)
  • Peer reviewer for The Plant Cell, Genome Biology, Bioinformatics Advances, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Plant Biology, Plant Direct and PeerJ

Training

  • EMBO Lab Leadership for Postdocs, John Innes Centre (2025)