About me

     I was born in a small town on the northern, green, rainy and beautiful Spanish coast. Already as a kid, I had a fascination for nature, the oceans, investigation and conservation. My mom tells how my siblings ran away scared when I was coming back from the rocks in the beach with my bare hands full of crabs… or how she was going crazy cleaning the house because there was a bad smell… She finally found out that it was related to ‘my nature collection’. The crown of the collection, a dead lizard I had just found close to the house, this was the smelly tracer she could follow to my drawer.

     Few years later, I decided to deepen my knowledge about living beings and started reading the ‘Encyclopaedia of Natural History’. After volume I (mammals), I stopped; it was kind of a dry reading for a 9-10 year old. That reading did not discourage me, I kept reading popular science magazines and when time arrived, I chose Natural Sciences at high school. The choice for university studies was not as easy, biology, geology, chemistry? (sport?). Why not something integrating lots of them? Environmental Sciences, Marine Sciences?

     My passion for the ocean weighted and I went for the last. I had loved creatures in my childhood, geology and chemistry showed intriguing at high school. At university, physics enchanted me as well: physical oceanography, ocean currents, wow! Amazing! So I picked up the speciality ‘Non-living resources’. I did a master in Coastal Geosciences and Engineering in Kiel and a PhD in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, which was my field of investigation for over 15 years. I have also engaged in science communication, particularly through storytelling about climate change. 

    Researching about past ocean circulation and climates has been intriguing. This discipline is fundamental to understand Earth's climate development and shows the undeniable existence of the current human-made climate change. It is time to act. For this reason I decided to direct my profesional time to climate protection adn work since September 2023 as Climate Protection Manager for the city Delmenhorst.