Alejandro Cearreta, is Full Professor of Micropaleontology at the Universidad de Pais Vasco and Director of the postgraduate program in Quaternary: Environmental Changes and Human Fingerprint. His activity is performed in different coastal environments both in Spain (Cantabrian and Mediterranean coasts) and elsewhere (Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, and Chile). He has developed 3 main lines of research: 1) Environmental evolution of the coastal zone during the Holocene; 2) Sea-level changes in the Quaternary; and 3) Human impact during the Anthropocene. Since 2002, he leads a consolidated research group that investigates coastal changes from a multiproxy geological perspective. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and acted as Guest Editor in different issues of SCI journals in collaboration with numerous international colleagues. He is currently member of the Anthropocene Working Group (International Commission on Stratigraphy) and Associate Researcher of the Basque Centre for Climate Change-BC3.