I am a palaeontologist interested in the early evolution of arthropods, with special focus on lower Palaeozoic trilobites. I obtained a Bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Valencia in Spain and a Master degree in Palaeontology from the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. I completed my PhD degree in Paleontology at the Institute of Earth Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, under the supervision of Professor Allison C. Daley. My PhD project was focused on trilobites from the Fezouata Biota in Morocco, with the purpose of identifying patterns in the evolution of the group during the Ordovician. Subsequently, I joined Jonathan Adrain’s lab at the University of Iowa with my own project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project is entitled: “Nature and significance of newly discovered trilobite mass extinction events in the Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) of North America” and seeks to characterize two Early Ordovician trilobite mass extinctions in North America and compare them with the well-studied late Cambrian extinctions. Ultimately the results of the project will make possible to assess whether the Ordovician extinctions represent similar phenomena to those of Cambrian, raising the possibility of a shared forcing mechanism driving a regime of cyclical mass extinction that persisted for as long as 17 million years.