Profesores e Investigadores

Curriculum Vitae

Quinquenios

2022

Docentia

2023-24

Sexenios investigación

2020

Centro

E.S. CC. Experimentales y Tecnología

Departamento

Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica

Área

Ecología

Grupos de investigación

Grupo de investigación de alto rendimiento en Ecología de Comunidades de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Grupo de investigación de alto rendimiento en Ecología Evolutiva de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Centro/Instituto de investigación

Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Contacto

silvia.matesanz@urjc.es

Presentación

I performed my PhD at the Museum of Natural Sciences--CSIC, and obtained my doctorate degree at Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) in 2008, with cum laude qualification, European Doctorate mention and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Then, I was awarded a 3-year Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (European Commission), to carry out a 2-year postdoctoral research stay at Wesleyan University (CT, USA) and a 1-year stay at the MNCN (CSIC). In May 2012, I joined the URJC Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación with a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship; in 2016 I obtained a Ramón y Cajal fellowship. All the fellowships that I have enjoyed in my scientific career have been obtained in highly competitive research programs. In 2021, I became Associate Professor of Ecology at URJC. My lines of research mainly focus on the evolutionary ecology of plants. In particular, my research deals with the ecological and evolutionary effects of global change (mainly habitat fragmentation, climate change, invasive species) in Mediterranean plants, with an interest in the evolutionary potential of plant populations. I use an interdisciplinary approach, combining field studies, ecophysiology, quantitative genetics, population genetics and molecular tools. I have published 66 articles in SCI journals in top journals including Ecology Letters (2), New Phytologist (2), Ecology (2), Journal of Ecology (4) and Global Ecology and Biogeography (2). I am the first author in 26 of them, and three of them are invited review articles. Up to date, they have received >3000 citations in the Web of Science (>4900 in Google Scholar), h-index 25 (30 in GS). I have 33 months of experience in international stays in diverse institutions (USA, Scotland, Estonia), where I have established long-term collaborations with international researchers, as reflected in the diversity of the co-authors of my publications. I have also published several articles in scientific and popular journals such as Investigación y Ciencia, and several book chapters. I have been invited to present my research at two international conferences. I have also given 10 oral presentations, 7 of them at international congresses and one at a national congress. I am the co-author of another 7 presentations at national and international conferences, and I have presented a total of 14 posters. I have also been part of the scientific committee of several international conferences. In addition, I have been invited to present seminars in conferences, workshops and seminar cycles held in different international research institutions. I have participated in 14 research projects of national and international funding, being the principal investigator of four of them, funded by MINECO, the British Ecological Society, the AEET and the URJC, and I have been member of the External Advisory Board of a H2020 consortium. To date, I have reviewed more than 110 papers for 28 SCI journals. I am a regular reviewer of research grants and scholarships, for both national and international research agencies. Since 2012, I teach several classes at URJC at the Bachelor and Master levels, accumulating more than 800h of teaching experience. I have supervised three doctoral thesis (plus one more currently ongoing), 4 master¿s theses (TFM) and 6 bachelor¿s theses (TFG). I have also been a member of 9 PhD defense panels, at both national and international institutions. I regularly participate in outreach and dissemination activities.

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