Competences

• Internationalisation strategy
• International relations, connections and participation in international networks and associations
• Rollout of the European Across Alliance
• Strengthening the strategic alliance with the university of Perpignan Via Domícia (UPVD)
• International projects within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme
• Internationalisation initiatives at home, in coordination with the vice-rector for Teaching and Academic Regulations and the vice-rector for Students
• National and international exchange and mobility of teaching and research staff and administrative and service staff, in coordination with the Research and Transfer vice-rector and with the manager
• Reception of international students
• Reception of international staff
• International volunteering, solidarity, and cooperation, in coordination with the vice-president for Territorial and Environmental Impact and the vice-president for Students

Biography

As a lecturer in the Department of Geography and a researcher at the Institute of the Environment, he has extensive experience in university management, research, and international cooperation, always focusing on the territory and the major environmental and social challenges of our time.In terms of teaching, he teaches subjects in both the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Sciences. 

He has been the director of the Institute of the Environment and the director of the Cultural and Natural Heritage Campus, promoting initiatives that connect research with territorial management and sustainability. 

His research has focussed on biogeography, natural space management and landscape ecology and has mainly been developed in protected natural areas and their planning and management.He is a member of the Socio-Environmental Change Research and Investigation Group (SAMBI). 

Internationalisation has been at the heart of his teaching and research career, as head of Erasmus + projects and promoter of various Erasmus + KA131 - with universities from Finland, Roumania and other European Union countries - and KA171 - with institutions from the Maghreb, the Caucasus and Ukraine. 

He is also the coordinator of the Climate and Environmental Change sub-network of the UNIMED Network, representing the UdG, to promote actions and projects in this area amongst the 45 universities that are members of the two shores of the Mediterranean.