Associate Professor in Plant Physiology at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Interested in the study of seedless plants, and ferns in particular. PhD in Biology in 1993 from Oviedo University, followed by a EU-funded postgraduate research sejourn at the INRA in Orléans, France, with Dr. Patrick Dumas, training in chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. Granted by The Regional Research Plan of the Principality of Asturias (FICYT), in 1997-98, and then by the Ramón y Cajal National Excellence Research Program, to study plant reproduction in the gametophyte. Guest researcher at the Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, at the Ueli Grossniklaus' lab in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2019,  to envisage the implementation, long-term, of asexuality conducts in sexual crop species. Academic Secretariat at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Oviedo (2011-2017). Member of the Spanish Society of Plant Physiology and the Spanish Society of In-Vitro Plant Cells and Tissues.