Degree in Cc. Biological Sciences at the University of Málaga (UMA) in 1991. Graduated with a degree (1993) in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (UMA). He holds a PhD in Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1996. He is a Researcher at the Center for Astrobiology, CAB (INTA-CSIC) in 2002. Since 2003 he is Professor of Genetics at the Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology at The University of Málaga (UMA). His scientific career began in the UMA in 1993, in the field of Bioinformatics under the direction of Dr. F. Sánchez Jiménez. He later moved to the Center for Biological Research (CSIC) in Madrid where he did his PhD thesis under the direction of Dr. JB Schvartzman, specializing in the field of DNA replication. He held a postdoctoral stay (1997-2001) at the Laboratory of Microbial Genetics (INRA) in Paris - under the supervision of Drs. Dusko Ehrlich and Bénédicte Michel, specializing in the biochemical and genetic analysis of bacterial gene instability. Back in Spain he worked from 2001-2003 at the CAB where he collaborated in the sequencing of the first bacterial genome sequenced in Spain. He recently made a brief stay of 3 months at the Center de Génétique Moleculaire,

Genetic and molecular bases of the so-called "dynamic mutations", changes in DNA characterized by the deletion or amplification of repeated sequences and related to different diseases in humans