I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Caen (France) in 2003 working at the SPhN-CEA Saclay (France) on the study of the cross sections of fission fragments produced in the spallation reaction of 208Pb at 500 AMeV. In February 2004 I received a Royal Society Grant and I moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool (UK) to work on the structure of exotic nuclei. In 2009, I was awarded a CEA postdoctoral contract at GANIL (France). During this time, I took a leading role in the EPSRC funded TIARA project. In addition, I have been heavily involved in the technical design and testing of instrumentation to be used in future RIB facilities such as: FAIR, EURISOL, and SPIRAL2. In 2011, I returned to Spain as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. My current research activities focus now on the study of unbound systems with active targets also called open quantum systems. I am a member of the ERC-funded European collaboration ACTAR TPC and part of the Advisory Committee. Within this collaboration, I am now leading an innovative programme to study the structure of, so-far unobserved, exotic nuclei. I am the spokesperson of several experiments to be carried out at international facilities such as: GANIL, RCNP, TRIUMF and FRIB. Since 2018, I am Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics and in charge of the Erasmus and SICUE programmes.