I completed a B.Sc. in Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008), followed by an M.Sc. in Biodiversity at the University of Barcelona (2009). During my master’s degree, I worked in the Arthropod Systematics and Evolution lab under the supervision of Miquel A. Arnedo, studying the molecular systematics and phylogeographic patterns of an Iberian group of springtails. Subsequently I started a Ph.D. in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Barcelona (2014), supervised by Professor Xavier Belles. During my PhD I tried to address questions related to the origin and evolution of insect metamorphosis. In 2015, I obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in the University of Bristol. My postdoc with Davide Pisani is focused on the origins and early evolution of arthropods

Molecular palaeobiology of artrhopods

Lozano, J, Monta?ez, R & Belles, X, 2015, ‘MiR-2 family regulates insect metamorphosis by controlling the juvenile hormone signaling pathway’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 112., pp. 3740-5 Lozano-Fernandez, J, Carton, R, Tanner, A, Puttick, MN, Blaxter, M, Vinther, J, Olesen, J, Giribet, G, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2016, ‘A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialisation’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 371.