Jose María Maya-Manzano Ph.D
 About me.   

      BSc in Environmental Sciences (2009) and MSc in Biological research (2010) and Modern techniques in Statistics (2017). PhD in Aerobiology (June 2015) in the Botany area at University of Extremadura (Spain), being awarded with the Doctorate Extraordinary Award in 2016 and by Spanish Aerobiology Association to the best PhD thesis in Aerobiology in March 2018.
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Experienced in research groups of Spain, UK, Ireland and Germany from 2011 to 2022. From March 2018 to March 2020 I was Project Manager in a project funded by Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), entitled Pollen Monitoring and Modelling (POMMEL). Afterwards (March 2020-September 2022), I worked as Postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Allergie and Environment (ZAUM) in Technical University Munich, Germany, working for the Bavarian Pollen Monitoring Network. Currently I am working as Associate professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) in Botany at University of Extremadura (Spain).

Teaching in nationals and internationals training courses in Aerobiology, and workshops about mycology and fungal spores in Spain. Furthermore,contributions in several scientific dissemination activities in the University context. Teaching about pollution and air monitoring, statistics and modelling in University of Sussex (UK) and Technological University Dublin (Ireland). being supervised students in their final degree dissertations and PhD students too.

With publications in Aerobiology and several contributions to national and international congresses and scientific symposiums related with aerobiology, environmental sciences, climate change and time series analysis, botany, etc.

Training in GIS, Remote Sensing, Botany, SDM, Air Pollution, Data Science and Statistics, Geostatistics, Phenology or Mycology. Focused towards programming with R and data analysis. Belonging to the Spanish Aerobiology Society, Spanish Speakers Palynology Association, European Aerobiology Society (being part of the elected committee) and Association of Spanish researchers in Germany.

Lines of Research:

Research concerning mainly Aerobiology, analysis and modelling of pollen grains and fungal spores in the airborne fraction, their relationships with meteorology, land cover changes and their fluctuations, including those provoked by climate change. Also phenology in plants, vegetation source mapping (natural plants and urban ornamental species) in all scales,real time monitoring for pollen and spores, species distribution models, remote sensing and GIS applied to Botany, environmental allergens.