Luis Javier Barriga Cuartero graduated in Biology from the University of Alicante (2014-2018), major in Biotechnology and Biosanitary. During the 2018-2019 academic year, he transferred to the University of Valencia where he joined the Master's Degree in Research in Molecular, Cellular and Genetic Biology. Subsequently, he was contracted as a non-doctoral researcher in the PAFZP research group in various research projects related to the identification of pathogens in aquaculture and in the assessment of biofilm formation of marine bacteria and diatoms. Currently, he is enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Biomedicine and Biotechnology of the UV with a pre-doctoral contract (AGE-FORDOC. FPI) to carry out his doctoral thesis entitled: Emergent vibriosis in Aquaculture related to climate change.