Marta Sánchez Ordóñez

Marta Sánchez Ordóñez (Seville, 1973) is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Estación Biológica de Doñana of the Spanish National Research Center in Seville.
She has extensive international experience in environmental parisitology, biological invasions and climate change.

Her project is based on the fact that exotic species invaders are one of the main threats to biodiversity, and questions how these species will respond to climate change.

Determining this is key for predicting their future impact on ecosystems. Marta Sánchez focuses on Artemia franciscana, the crustacean that inhabits hypersaline environments. It is one of the species with the greatest invasive potentials known, which now affects numerous ecosystem services of great value for humans.
It will use an innovative approach called Resurrection Ecology, which allows research into evolutionary processes in real time.