1.National Research Recognitions 

2 Research Periods of Research Quality (6 years/period). The latest research period was granted in 2019. 

2. Dissemination of research: 33 research papers (8 of them in JCR journals) and more than 20 contributions to seminars and congresses, mainly international (NARST Conference (National Association of Research in Science Education), ESERA Conference (European Science Education Research Association), Congreso Internacional sobre Investigación en Didáctica de las Ciencias (Revista Enseñanza de las Ciencias) and Encuentros sobre Didáctica de las Ciencias. 

I authored or co-authored 7 books chapter, and I participated in 4 books regarding teaching skills in higher education (gender, competences, CLIC, …). 

3. Summary of research lines: Through my scientific career, I have developed 2 connected research lines: Language and Scientific Practices and Science Education and big ideas of Biology.  

Regarding the first one, I was invited to join LIEC Research Group in 2002 when I was a Secondary School Science Teacher. My interests were focused on the relation between language and science learning, specially related with the development of science models. As a group, our first research topic regarding CT was related with critical press reading, and this interest develop to epistemic cognition, focus on critical apt performance and how it is influenced by values, emotions, identities, etc. My PhD dissertation was related to attitudes to science and to identify which factors influenced the decision to enroll to a scientific degree.  

As I biologist, I’ve been always interest in how biological knowledge is organized, using the systemic approach, and how it could be developed, from children’ previous knowledge until biological one’s. Specifically, I am focused on how biological knowledge is developed in Secondary School. 

4. Bilbiometric indicators

Overall citations: 160                                 

H index: 5                                                  

5.  Supervision of research: In the last 10 years, I supervised 6 doctoral thesis, and 4 more in progress, 14 research master thesis, and more than 15 pre-service secondary school master thesis.

6. Research Projects

I participated in more than 10 research projects (European, Spanish, and Catalan government funded) and I am an active member of ACELEC research group (research group recognized and financed by the Catalan government). Nowadays, I am the IP of a the SCHOOL SCIENCE WITH-SCIENCE (AWARENESS) AND CRITICAL ACTION TO FACE EMERGENT REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES  project, funded by the Spanish Government.

7. Other activities

I participate in several schools’ advisory board to improve science learning as well as in many in-service secondary school teachers’ courses, organized by the Catalan or locals governments. 

Nowadays, I am the Coordinator of the Màster's Degree in Teaching in Seconday Schools, Vocational Training and Language Centres.

I was the Vice dean of Innovation, Quality and Masters of the Faculty of Education of the Universtitat Autònoma de Barcelona (since October 2021-2023) and Vice dean of Studies (2015-2021).

I am an editor of the Revista Enseñanza de las Ciencias since 2012. I participate as a reviewer of research journals (Journal of Biological Education, Revista Enseñanza de las Ciencias, Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, Eureka) and of research conferences (ESERA, Encuentros de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales and ERIDOB) on several occasions.