Full Professor at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT). The IACT is a research center belonging to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Granada.

• Bachelor’s degree in Geology at the University of Granada in 1984
• Gemmology, Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain in 1987
• Ph.D. in Sciences (Geology) at the University of Granada in 1989

Current teaching subjects:

• Ore mineralogy
• Geology of ore deposits
• Gemmology

Professor of the Master’s degree programs:

• Geology applied to minerals and energetic resources (University of Granada)
• Geology and environmental management of mineral resources (International University of Andalucia and University of Huelva)

Research interest is mainly related with different aspects of the metallogeny of mafic and ultramafic rocks

• Role of arsenic on the behavior of platinum-group elements in magmatic systems
• Mineralogy of platinum-group elements
• Ni-Cu magmatic sulfide deposits
• Genesis of chromitites in ophiolitic complexes
• Metamorphic alteration of ophiolitic cromitites
• Mineralogy and genesis of Co-Ni arsenides in five-elements deposits