Awards
Doctorate extraordinary award of University of Valencia, Spain (1985-1986); University of Valencia-Society Prize awarded to the best Research & Development group of the year (2005); Award to applicate research to Biodiversity Conservation from the “III Premios Biodiversidad y Sociedad” of the Conselleria d’Agricultura, Medi Ambient, Canvi Climàtic i Desenvolupament Rural of the Generalitat Valenciana (2016).
Grants
2 scholarships and 7 postdoctoral grants in Spain, France, Denmark, UK, and USA.
Editorial Advisor
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, Editorial Inter-Research (Germany), Foxwell & Davies Scientific Publisher (UK) and Cambridge University Press (UK).
Scientific Editor
Marine Mammals: Biology & Conservation, 2001, Kluwer Academics/Plenum Press, New York, 630 pp, ISBN 0-306-46572-8.
Proyecto mediterraneo. Zonas de especial interes para la conservacion de los cetaceos en el Mediterraneo espanol, 2004, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. Naturaleza y Parques Nacionales. Serie Tecnica, Madrid, 217 pp, ISBN 84-8014-574-9.
Expert Consultant
- Reserve Internationale Maritime en Mediterranee Occidentale: Scientific Committee
- Spanish Ministry of Environment: Marine Species of Wild Flora and Fauna Committee and SAP BIO
- Spanish Ministry of Agriculture: Fisheries, and Food, Interaction Fisheries-Cetaceans Committee
- European Commission: Sustainable Marine Ecosystems
- Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black sea, Mediterranean sea and contiguous Atlantic area: Scientific Committee
- United Nations Environmental Programme: Regional Activity Center for Specially Protected Areas
Reviewer of Scientific Journals
- Animal Biodiversity and Conservation (Spain)
- Aquatic Mammals (USA)
- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (Canada)
- Ciencias Marinas (Mexico)
- Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (Germany)
- European Research on Cetaceans (UK)
- Fishery Bulletin (USA)
- Folia Parasitologica (Czech Republic)
- Helminthologia (Slovakia)
- ICES Journal of Marine Science (Denmark)
- Invertebrate Biology (USA)
- Informes Tecnicos, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain)
- Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington (USA)
- Journal of Parasitology (USA)
- Journal of Wildlife Diseases (USA)
- Journal of Zoology (UK)
- Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals (Brazil)
- Mammalia (France)
- Mammal Review (UK)
- Marine Ecology Progress Series (Germany)
- Marine Mammal Science (USA)
- NAMMCO Scientific Publications (Norway)
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (USA)
- Revista Espanola de Herpetologia (Spain)
- Scientia Marina (Spain)
- The Israeli Journal of Aquaculture (Israel)
- Scientific Reports of the International Whaling  Commission (UK)
- Systematic Parasitology (Netherland)
- Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (USA)
Referee of Research Applications
- General Department of Science and Technology & General Department of Hight Education of Ministery of Education and Science, Spain
- Interministerial Commision of Science and Technology, Spain
- CODEST committee of European Commission
- Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
- Fundation Biodiversite de France
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva), Republica Argentina
- Australian Research Council
- Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarollo (CYTED)
- Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Framework Programmes, European Commission