Ramón y Cajal researcher (Investigadora Contratada Ramón y Cajal) at the Department of Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC). Research keywords: biodiversity, microbial ecology, Antarctica, microbiomes, biogeography, ocean, zooplankton, carbon pump. Her publications include work on the vertical connectivity of the ocean microbiome through sinking particles (PNAS, 2018) and on the diversity of marine bacterial and archaeal communities along the particulate matter continuum (ISME J, 2017; Molecular Ecology, 2017). (Description curated from publicly available data.)