Joaquin Muñoz

Institutions:
- International Project Manager - Vicepresidencia de Relaciones Internacionales del CSIC (VRI-CSIC). Área de Proyectos Internacionales (API), Madrid, Spain, from June 2023 - present.
- International Project Manager - International Projects Unit of the Institut de Recerca de'l Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (IR-HSCSP, Barcelona, Spain), from  Feb. - April 2023
- International Project Manager - International Projects Office (OPI-UCO), University of Cordoba, Spain from Feb. 2021 - January 2023
- Postdoctoral Researcher - UIRCP Research Unit, University of Cordoba, Spain from 2019 until 2020
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Conservation Biology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) from 2017 until 2018
- Postdoctoral Researcher - Department of Biology, University of Aalborg from 2015 until 2016
- IOF-MARIE CURIE Fellow - Wetland Ecology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) from 2014 until 2015
- IOF-MARIE CURIE Fellow - Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma from 2012 until 2014.

I am a molecular ecologist and evolutionary biologist utilizing genetic/genomic resources. After my PhD dissertation in 2009, I have enjoyed three postdoctoral positions in Spain, U.S.A., and Denmark. As a result, I have participated and collaborated in a variety of international projects (Spain, U.S.A., Belgium, Denmark, U.K.), which has allowed to integrate and transfer knowledge from/for both North American and European research groups. Using new molecular technologies, physiological and microcosm/room experiments on three model systems (the brine shrimp Artemia; the water flea Daphnia; and the fruit fly Drosophila), I have investigated local endemism, population adaptation, and genotype by environment interaction with special focus on inbreeding. I have published 39 SCI research papers in more than 30 different journals, which have received more than 1,375 citations (WoS h-Index = 20).

Affiliations:
PUBLONS/ ResearchID - https://publons.com/researcher/1217740/joaquin-munoz/
LINKEDIN - https://es.linkedin.com/in/joaquin-munoz-b0336a172

- In 2010-2011 I was involved in a project focused on the study of the transmission nets of emerging diseases (host-vector-pathogen interactions) at Doñana National Park.

- During my PhD period (2006-2009), I studied the evolutionary implications of diapausing eggs' dispersal on aquatic invertebrate populations from wetland ecosystems. To understand the population dynamics and evolution of this invertebrate group, I used species of genus Artemia (Crustacea:Anostraca) as model organism. My Thesis dealt with two different lines. Firstly on 'Population Genetics and Phylogeography: relationships between waterfowls/humans and aquatic invertebrates, and their influence on genetic structure of their populations'; and secondly on 'Biological and Genetic Conservation: relationships between native species and invasive Artemia species, and other aquatic invertebrates'.
Supervisors: Andy J. Green, Lawrence J. Weider, Jordi Figuerola, Juan Carranza, José Antonio Donazar, Elena Fernández-Conde Cuadra, Noemí Carranza, and Guillermo Sanjuanbenito