About me
Teaching
I consider that one of my greatest responsibilities as a teacher is to provide my students not only with intellectual and technical tools to fully develop their capabilities but also to increase their critical vision to enable them to question their surrounding world. They should systematically question everything to increase their knowledge of what's, why's and how's that the natural world around them provides them.
Over that time, we came out with a qualified, competent, socially projected and with an international dimension group of people. To increase that, I try to encourage the pyramidal process of learning by which more qualified members teach the most recent ones under a multidisciplinary and respectful perspective. Not only we have put together a group of great professionals but also great and fun people to be with.
Until now, this is working and over 300 people is involved with us in our research lines.
Research lines
I am leading two main research lines:
On one side biology and ecophysiology of urban birds. We use House sparrows as model species and make use of the experimental setup infrastructures provided by the Biodiversity Monitoring Program that I supervise along with my partners Francisco Cabrero and Jose Antonio Molina.
Another research line I have always been attracted to is evolutionary biology. I have dedicated some of my efforts to study the interactions between individual behavior, the life-history theories and population dynamics. I combine theory with long term monitoring programs.
Curriculum Vitae
I graduated in Biology (Zoology specialty) in 1997. After a few years of collaboration with the Zoology Department at UCM and working a freelance for several companies and ONGs, I finished my Doctoral Thesis in 2006.
Since 2008 I work at the Faculty of Biology of the UCM first a as Part Time Lecturer and later as a Lecturer since 2016. I also have research and cooperation projects in Europe, America and Africa.
I am also a bird ringer at the Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi.
En español
Contact information:
Phone: (+34) 91394 5138
Fax: (+34) 91394 4947
E-mail: jaguirre@bio.ucm.es