Curriculum summary

Miquel Àngel Conesa’s PhD thesis, which he undertook at the University of the Balearic Islands, focuses on the natural hybridisation processes affecting endemic plant species from the Balearic Islands, with special emphasis on the evolutionary processes that gave rise to such species and the impact of hybridisation processes in the conservation of the endemic element.

Throughout his postdoctoral stage, and to date, he has basically developed two parallel research lines, both converging in the study of drought adaptation in Mediterranean environments. The first focuses on wild species and, to a great extent, on the genus Limonium, which has a large number of endemic taxa adapted to the extreme conditions of the coastal environment. The second focuses on the Balearic ‘ramellet’ tomato—a local landrace adapted to drought conditions and which has the ‘long shelf-life’ fruit phenotype, allowing over 6 months of post-harvest storability.

He has been a lecturer at the UIB since his predoctoral stage, lecturing on a wide range of subjects such as physiology-ecophysiology, botany, general and agricultural biology, biotechnology, agricultural resource management, and horticultural, woody and herbaceous crops.