My research interests have always been related to star formation, especially dense cores in molecular clouds, and astrochemistry. As such I have an extensive observational expertise at radio wavelengths, using both single-dish telescopes and inteferometers, for continuum and spectral line observations, from cm to sub-mm wavelengths.

I obtained my PhD in the University of Barcelona in a project combining single-dish and interferometric observations of stellar and pre-stellar cores and using chemical modeling of the molecular gas to explain the different spatial distributions of several of the detected molecular species. Later, I spent two years as a post-doc at the Ohio State University, working with Prof. Eric Herbst in the modeling of the chemistry of photon dominated regions (PDRs). After that, I spent a decade at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), first as an ALMA postdoc and then as a support astronomer, working in several projects related to astrochemistry and also got involved in the project that developed the Band 1 receiver for ALMA as the Project Scientist for the ALMA Band 1 Development Project. Coming back to Europe, I had a visiting position at ESO for about 3.5 years, mainly working on the search of very young protostars.

My current main research interests are the search for very young proto-brown dwarfs in nearby star forming regions and the study of the structure and properties of dense cores in molecular clouds. I have also become very interested in reproducible research and in exploring possible ways to make a much more efficient and reliable data processing and analysis workflow.