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2021-present
Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
Professor – Titular de Universidad (Zoology) -
2013 – 2021
Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
Profesor Contratado Dr. ULL, Spain – Group leader of Marine Community Ecology -
2010 – 2013
Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
Profesor Ayudante Dr. ULL, Spain -
2007 – 2010
Villanova University and Oregon State University (USA)
Postdoc -
2004 – 2006
University of California Santa Cruz (USA)
PhD visiting student -
2004 – 2006
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panamá)
PhD visiting student -
2004 – 2006
Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
PhD student
Lab members

Marc Martin
PhD candidate: biodiversity found in Macaronesian ports

Dr. Jesús M. Falcón
Ecology and Biogeography of Marine Fishes
Instituto Español de Oceanografía – CSIC

Claudia Hurtado
PhD candidate: Interaction of sea turtles and humans

Iván Cano
PhD candidate: Diadema africanum mass mortalities and benthic community wide effects

Marina Aliende
PhD candidate: Adaptation of Marine Organisms

Dra. Simona Laukaityte
Invasive Species
Seagrass Ecology – burrowers facilitation. University Groningen, the Netherlands2020

Dr. Enrique Lozano
Ecotoxicology of Metals

Naira Sosa
PhD candidate: Macaronesian biodiversity

Andrés Rufino Navarro
PhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community

Dr. Celso A. Hernández
Coastal Oceanography

Dr. Carlos Sangil
Macroalgae Ecology

Dr. Jacob Lorenzo Morales
Marine Pathogens

Dr. Jorge Núñez Fraga
Benthic Fauna

Dra. Sara González Delgado
Benthic communities of the future: biodiversity and functioning.

Dra. Beatriz Alfonso
Community Ecology
Formed students
Doctorated

Dra. Dominique Girard Berard
Paracentrotus lividus population biology and ecology

Dr. Celso A. Hernández
Coastal Oceanography

Dra. Adriana Rodríguez Hernández
Effect of Ocean Acidification on Sea Urchins Populations

Dra. Eliseba Garcia
Sea Urchin Larvae Biology

Dra. María Sabrina Clemente Martín
Trophic Interactions_Sea Urchin-TopPredators

Dr. José Carlos Mendoza Duran
Ecological modeling

Dra. Sara González Delgado
Benthic communities of the future: biodiversity and functioning.
Master’s

Ana Alfaro
Effect of primary production on littoral fish communities

Isabel Sancibrian Span
Methods for sampling fish communities in tropical environments

Natali Lazzari
Effects of underwater volcanic eruptions on coastal fish assemblages.

Vahitiare Quintero Romero
Effect of underwater volcanic eruptions on rocky mesoinvertebrates communities

Sofia Viotti
Effects of natural acidification on Phorcus sauciatus survival

Enrique Ogallas
Effect of the MPA Ventotene Islands and Santo Stefano on fish assemblages

Amaya Miguel Barrera
Growth estimation of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula

Carla Pérez
Effects of a natural CO2 gradient on benthic coastal populations (Bachelor)
Determining carbon adquicition system of benthic macroalgae
(Master)

Pablo Martín Pestano
Trophic ecology of brown smooth-hound shark (Mustelus henlei) and grey smooth-hound (Mustelus californicus)

Alfredo Fernández
Population dynamics and relationship with environmental conditions of three scyphozoan jellyfishes in the Mar Menor lagoon (Spain)

Andrés Rufino Navarro
PhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community

Henriette Heidrich
Marine benthic assemblages trends of the Canary Islands MPAs

Camila Esperanza Salazar Forero
Marine pathogens of sea urchins

Javier Sepúlveda
Larvae development of Arbacia lixula under a natural pH gradient

Naira Sosa
PhD candidate: Macaronesian biodiversity

Romain Guet
MSc in Marine Environment and Resources, Erasmus Mundus Programme
Phylogeography of Diadema africanum, 2021
Phylogeography of Diadema africanum, 2021

Marina Aliende
PhD candidate: Adaptation of Marine Organisms

Claudia Hurtado
PhD candidate: Interaction of sea turtles and humans

Carol Bottaro
Population structure of Phorcus sauciatus. Erasmus Mundu Program (MER+), 2021
Bachelor´s

Vahitiare Quintero Romero
Effect of underwater volcanic eruptions on rocky mesoinvertebrates communities

Eros Cabrera González
Biomass export from different littoral macroalgae communities

Daniel Miranda González
Development of a long-term monitoring program of Tenerife intertidal areas

Cristina González Monje
Efficiency of rocky benthic assemblages on carbon adquisition

Héctor Toledo Padilla
Growth and mortality of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus.

Yasmina Díaz Siverio
Effects of lunar cycle on Diadema aff. antillarum gametogenesis.

Marc Balsalobre
Spatial and temporal variation of mesoinvertebrates on rocky subtidal ecosystems

Carla Pérez
Effects of a natural CO2 gradient on benthic coastal populations (Bachelor)
Determining carbon adquicition system of benthic macroalgae
(Master)

Saray Pérez
Study of allometric growth of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) in the coasts of Tenerife

Liam Barreto Pérez
Forcipulatidae starfishes of the Canary Islands

Eva Burgos
Temporal study of sea turtles stranding cases in the Canary Islands

Andrés Rufino Navarro
PhD candidate: Sea urchin larvae and symbiont community

Abel Méndez Álvarez
Settlement of the sea urchin Diadema africanum after the mass mortality of 2018

Asia Mattaliano
Review of the biology and ecology of Arbacia lixula

Estefanía González
Sea urchin pathogens

Lorena Méndez Hernández
Settlement of marine invertebrates in recent volcanic lavas

Aitor Ugena
Taxonomy of early decapods settlers. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2023

Elin Disse
Using historic underwater lava flows to determine circalitoral benthic community structure, The Freie Universität Berlin, 2023

Lena Lingenfelder
Seagrass meiofauna
Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg, 2021
Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg, 2021
Visiting students

Daniel González
Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica 2018

Andrés Beita
Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017.

John Kirwan
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science. Lund University. 2016

Debora Terrosu
Natural Sciences at the University of
Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2015
Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2015

Alessandra Fanai
Natural Sciences at the University of
Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2014
Sassari (Sardinia, Italy) (Erasmus Program). 2014

Martina Matić
University of Split, Universidad de Oviedo and University of Ghent. 2014

Lana Allertz & Caroline Schlepper
Van Hall Larenstein,
University of Applied Science
Coastal Zone Management, 2013
University of Applied Science
Coastal Zone Management, 2013

Mishal Cohen
Université du Littoral Cote d´Opale, Dunkerque, France 2012

Rita González Domínguez
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain 2012

Emily June Gray
University of Hull, Cottingham, UK 2011

Andrea Glockner Fagetti
Universidad del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico 2010

Manfredi Di Lorenzo
University of Palermo,
Italy 2008
Italy 2008

Flavia Nunes
University of San Diego,
USA 2007
USA 2007

Jane Manning & Victoria Galitzine
Swamsea University,
Wales, UK 2005
Wales, UK 2005

Jake Coyle
Newcastle University, UK 2015

Romain Guet
MSc in Marine Environment and Resources, Erasmus Mundus Programme
Phylogeography of Diadema africanum, 2021
Phylogeography of Diadema africanum, 2021

Horst Christian Schulte
Meiofauna of macroalgae. Universität Bremen, 2021

Dra. Simona Laukaityte
Invasive Species
Seagrass Ecology – burrowers facilitation. University Groningen, the Netherlands2020

Aitor Ugena
Taxonomy of early decapods settlers. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2023

Elin Disse
Using historic underwater lava flows to determine circalitoral benthic community structure, The Freie Universität Berlin, 2023

Carol Bottaro
Population structure of Phorcus sauciatus. Erasmus Mundu Program (MER+), 2021

Lena Lingenfelder
Seagrass meiofauna
Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg, 2021
Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg, 2021
