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Blanca Figuerola
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
2,215 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 15
Editor 2,200

Contributions by subject area

Ecology
Marine Biology
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Zoology
Drugs and Devices
Pharmacology
Conservation Biology
Environmental Impacts
Population Biology
Ecosystem Science
Taxonomy
Aquatic and Marine Chemistry
Evolutionary Studies
Molecular Biology
Animal Behavior
Climate Change Biology
Science Policy
Natural Resource Management
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Microbiology
Oncology
Paleontology
Bioengineering
Ecotoxicology

Blanca Figuerola

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Blanca Figuerola is currently a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Barcelona (ICM-CSIC). She received her PhD in Biodiversity from the University of Barcelona. Her research sits between the established disciplines of taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology and conservation paleobiology using understudied marine invertebrate groups (e.g bryozoans) from tropical to cold waters as models for environmental change. During her postdoctoral research career, she has been awarded competitive grants such as Juan de la Cierva Incorporación (2018) and Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie-COFUND program (2020) to work at international research institutions (e.g. Australian Antarctic Division (Australia), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) and ICM-CSIC). There, she has participated in several multidisciplinary projects involving fieldwork in Antarctic, temperate and tropical regions.

Aquatic & Marine Chemistry Biological Oceanography Marine Biology Natural Products

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universitat de Barcelona
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Work details

Ramon y Cajal researcher

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
April 2024
Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), Dept. Marine Biology and Oceanography

PhD in Biodiversity

Universitat de Barcelona
September 2008 - November 2013
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Supervisor: Conxita Avila http://www.conxitaslab.cat

Postdoctoral fellow

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
November 2017 - June 2019
Naos laboratories
Supervisor: Aaron O'Dea https://odealab.com

Juan de la Cierva-incorporación postdoc researcher

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
July 2019 - March 2021
Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), Dept. Marine Biology and Oceanography
Supervisor: Joaquim Garrabou http://medrecover.org/

Beatriu de Pinós/Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND postdoctoral researcher

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
April 2021 - March 2024
Institute of Marine Science (ICM_CSIC), Dept. Marine Biology and Oceanography

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • ResearcherID
  • Academia.edu
  • Personal website

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 15

Academic Editor on

January 24, 2025
Geochemical signatures and nanomechanical properties of echinoid tests from nearshore habitats of Florida: environmental and physiological controls on echinoid biomineralization
Przemysław Gorzelak, Luis Torres Jr., Dorota Kołbuk, Tobias B. Grun, Michał Kowalewski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18688 PubMed 39872031
July 11, 2023
The quality of the fossil record across higher taxa: compositional fidelity of phyla and classes in benthic marine associations
Carrie Tyler, Michał Kowalewski
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15574 PubMed 37456869
September 23, 2022
Antimicrobial and cytotoxic effects of marine sponge extracts Agelas clathrodes, Desmapsamma anchorata and Verongula rigida from a Caribbean Island
Julie Piron, Stephane Betzi, Jessica Pastour, Audrey Restouin, Rémy Castellano, Yves Collette, Niklas Tysklind, Juliette Smith-Ravin, Fabienne Priam
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13955 PubMed 36172499
July 4, 2022
Sea urchins: an update on their pharmacological properties
Dulce María Moreno-García, Monica Salas-Rojas, Eduardo Fernández-Martínez, Ma del Rocío López-Cuellar, Carolina G. Sosa-Gutierrez, Armando Peláez-Acero, Nallely Rivero-Perez, Adrian Zaragoza-Bastida, Deyanira Ojeda-Ramírez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13606 PubMed 35811815
June 15, 2022
Habitat variability and faunal zonation at the Ægir Ridge, a canyon-like structure in the deep Norwegian Sea
Saskia Brix, Stefanie Kaiser, Anne-Nina Lörz, Morgane Le Saout, Mia Schumacher, Frederic Bonk, Hronn Egilsdottir, Steinunn Hilma Olafsdottir, Anne Helene S. Tandberg, James Taylor, Simon Tewes, Joana R. Xavier, Katrin Linse
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13394 PubMed 35726260
December 21, 2021
Interpopulational differences in the nutritional condition of Aequiyoldia eightsii (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) from the Western Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer
Miguel Bascur, Simon A. Morley, Michael P. Meredith, Carlos P. Muñoz-Ramírez, David K. A. Barnes, Irene R. Schloss, Chester J. Sands, Oscar Schofield, Alejandro Román-Gonzaléz, Leyla Cárdenas, Hugh Venables, Antonio Brante, Ángel Urzúa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12679 PubMed 35036155
June 18, 2021
Chemical defense in developmental stages and adult of the sea star Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis
Renato Crespo Pereira, Daniela Bueno Sudatti, Thaise S.G. Moreira, Carlos Renato R. Ventura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11503 PubMed 34178443
January 4, 2021
Aichi Target 18 beyond 2020: mainstreaming Traditional Biodiversity Knowledge in the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal ecosystems
Paola Fajardo, David Beauchesne, Alberto Carbajal-López, Rémi M. Daigle, L. Denisse Fierro-Arcos, Jesica Goldsmit, Sabine Zajderman, Juan I. Valdez-Hernández, María Yolanda Terán Maigua, Ronaldo A. Christofoletti
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9616 PubMed 33585077
December 18, 2020
Utilizing sponge spicules in taxonomic, ecological and environmental reconstructions: a review
Magdalena Łukowiak
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10601 PubMed 33384908
May 29, 2020
Proliferating activity in a bryozoan lophophore
Natalia Shunatova, Ilya Borisenko
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9179 PubMed 32523809
March 2, 2020
Vertical distribution of megafauna on the Bering Sea slope based on ROV survey
Elena Rybakova, Sergey Galkin, Andrey Gebruk, Nadezhda Sanamyan, Alexander Martynov
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8628 PubMed 32175187
October 18, 2019
A synopsis of knowledge, zoogeography and an online interactive map of Brazilian marine gastrotrichs
Ariane Campos, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7898 PubMed 31637137
September 19, 2019
A new record of kelp Lessonia spicata (Suhr) Santelices in the Sub-Antarctic Channels: implications for the conservation of the “huiro negro” in the Chilean coast
Sebastián Rosenfeld, Fabio Mendez, Martha S. Calderon, Francisco Bahamonde, Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Jaime Ojeda, Johanna Marambio, Matthias Gorny, Andrés Mansilla
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7610 PubMed 31579579
August 14, 2019
Latitudinal variation in phlorotannin contents from Southwestern Atlantic brown seaweeds
Glaucia Ank, Bernardo Antônio Perez da Gama, Renato Crespo Pereira
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7379 PubMed 31428540
February 21, 2019
Distribution and status of living colonies of Acropora spp. in the reef crests of a protected marine area of the Caribbean (Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba)
Leslie Hernández-Fernández, Roberto González de Zayas, Yunier M. Olivera, Fabián Pina Amargós, Claudia Bustamante López, Lisadys B. Dulce Sotolongo, Fernando Bretos, Tamara Figueredo Martín, Dayli Lladó Cabrera, Francisco Salmón Moret
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6470 PubMed 30809452