He is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher in the Department of History (Prehistory Area) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he researches on human evolution through the study of prehistoric osteoarchaeological remains. Previously, he has been Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (2020-2023) and Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at the International Institute of Prehistoric Research of Cantabria at the University of Cantabria (2018-2020). At all these universities he has also taught Prehistory, Human Evolution and Biological Anthropology.

Director of the Archaeological Project in the Cave of El Pendo (Cantabria), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 2016 and coordinator of the Working Group TapHomo (2017-2022) of the CNRS Taphen network. He has conducted fieldwork in South America, Central America, Europe and more recently in Africa. In all these places his interest has been the study of hunter-gatherer societies through the study of skeletal remains to understand aspects of human behaviour, palaeoecology or the biological evolution of past societies. His interest in methodological development has also led him to work on more recent chronologies, and his research currently focuses on the interaction between human populations and disease (Palaeopathology).

He is a member of several research groups, a research affiliate of the Turkana Basin Institute (Kenya), a life member of the Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie of the University of Tübingen (Germany) and a Senior Member of King's College Cambridge (UK). He graduated in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2010), where he also completed a Master's degree in Prehistoric Archaeology. She received her PhD from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili with an FI predoctoral fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya at the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES) (2013-2016). She completed a one-year pre-doctoral stay at the University of Tübingen. She also holds a Master's degree in Forensic Sciences from the University of Valencia, and teaches an annual PhD course on Forensic Sciences at the University of Cantabria.