Cristian Pérez-Granados

Head of group

PROGRAM / Conservation biology

Cristian Pérez-Granados holds a PhD in biology from the University of Alicante (2016) and work as specialist in the monitoring and study of species, most of them endangered, using new technologies. Among these tools, he has extensive experience using passive acoustic monitoring and automated species detection, including the assessment and development of machine learning models. He has also used other techniques for wildlife monitoring, such as drones, satellite imagery, camera traps, and metabarcoding.
Cristian has worked at various research institutions, both in Spain and abroad, always focusing on wildlife monitoring and conservation. He is a member of the IUCN Species Monitoring Specialist Group and the Spanish IUCN Committee. He has authored over 80 SCI articles and has given more than 70 talks and presentations, most of them as an invited speaker or at international conferences. He has participated in or coordinated numerous contracts with government bodies and competitive grant projects, both national and international (e.g. Generación de Conocimiento, LIFE, Biodiversa, Biodiversa+).