A major part of my work has focused on how plants respond to neighbours belowground. Using game-theoretical models and experiments, I have studied how plants adjust root proliferation depending on the competitive behavior of neighboring individuals. This work contributes to understanding plant competition not simply as a struggle for resources, but as a strategic process that can shape individual performance, coexistence, and community structure.

I am interested in how local interactions among plants scale up to influence community-level patterns, including coexistence, spatial organization, and vegetation structure. This line of research links individual-level mechanisms, such as root foraging and facilitation, with broader ecological outcomes such as species diversity, pattern formation, and ecosystem resilience.

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher in the European project COUSIN, where I apply concepts from root competition and belowground niche segregation to agroecology. My work focuses on identifying root traits in Aegilops biuncialis, a wild relative of wheat, that may improve productivity and complementarity in wheat variety mixtures. By combining root phenotyping, rhizotron experiments, and ecological theory, this project explores how evolutionary and ecological knowledge from wild species can inform more diverse and resilient cropping systems.

More recently, I have become interested in Mediterranean open woodlands as systems where plant interactions, herbivory, fire, and historical land use intersect. In particular, I am developing a research line on open Spanish oak landscapes in the Central Gredos Range, exploring whether some of these systems may represent relict ecosystem configurations rather than simply degraded forests. This work aims to connect ecological theory, natural history, palaeoecological perspectives, and conservation management.