Growing up in the Mediterranean environment on Mallorca until the age of five, my earliest childhood memories are closely connected to rugged limestone landscapes, arid climates, and an appreciative handling of water. In the remote rural area where we lived, potable water came from our own well. This early exposure not only raised my awareness of water as a precious resource, but also taught me that children rarely appreciate ice-cold showers.

At the age of fourteen, I attended a public lecture at the University that sparked my fascination for Geosciences and the integrative nature of its research methods. As an undergraduate student, I became particularly interested in structural geology and pore-space analysis. Around the same time, my uncle introduced me to programming, an experience that fundamentally shaped my scientific trajectory. The combination of hydrogeology, fluid dynamics, and computational modeling immediately resonated with me. Since then, numerical modeling and method development have been central components of my scientific work.

I received my Diploma from the University of Göttingen in 2009, focusing on unsaturated multi-continuum modeling of karst aquifers. During my doctoral research, conducted at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) and the University of Göttingen, I developed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) models for pore-scale flow processes. This particle-based perspective provided a fundamentally new view on discrete flow dynamics and complemented my broader catchment-scale research. I received my Ph.D. in 2014 from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Göttingen.

Following my doctorate, I was appointed to a junior faculty position at the Department of Applied Geology in Göttingen, where I led the Fractured Rock Hydrogeology Group. My research focused on preferential flow processes in fractured porous media and karst systems, bridging scales from pore-scale dynamics to network-scale behavior.

Since 2023, I have been based at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC) in Barcelona. There, I initially served as coordinator and lead developer within the ERC-funded project KARST, contributing to the development of advanced numerical modeling tools for transient conduit flow dynamics. In 2024, I defended my Habilitation thesis at the University of Göttingen.

In early 2025, I was appointed as a tenured senior researcher at CSIC and formally assumed civil servant status in early 2026.