Lidia Montiel works as a Bioinformatics Research Technician at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) since January 2017. She studied Microbiology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and finished her Master’s degree in "Bioinformatics for Health Sciences" at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2016. Prior to her current position at the ICM, she carried out her master thesis at the ICM-CSIC with Ramiro Logares as a supervisor, from September 2015 to June 2016. The aim of the master thesis was to characterize globally prevalent deep-sea fungi, particularly a Tilletiopsis-like fungi, using metagenomes from Malaspina-2010 circumnavigation expedition. At the present time, she is part of the log[lab] group led by Ramiro Logares. She is involved in building gene catalogues and analyzing metagenomes, as well as potential metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from the Blanes Bay Microbial Observatory, along with other marine locations and experimental datasets, using bioinformatics methods in high performance computing (HPC) clusters such MARBITS or FinisTerrae III from CESGA. Lately, she has also taught Bioinformatics in the master’s program "Molecular Biology and Biomedicine" at the Universitat de Girona (UdG) since 2022-2023 course.