My main research focuses on understanding natural climate variability and anthropogenic influences on freshwater ecosystems. As paleolimnologist, I use lake sediment cores to infer long-term paleoenvironmental changes and paleoclimatic variability, particularly in alpine ecosystems at both centennial and millennial scales. I specialize in using subfossil cladocerans and diatoms as biotic indicators to analyze these changes, alongside other geochemical proxies. My current research therefore integrates biogeochemistry, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, global change, and anthropogenic impacts.

Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Heiri, Oliver, García-Alix, Antonio, Anderson, R. Scott, Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco J., López-Blanco, Charo, Jiménez, Laura, Pérez-Martínez, Carmen, Rodrigo-Gámiz, Marta, López-Avilés, Alejandro, & Camuera, Jon. (2023). Holocene summer temperature reconstruction based on a chironomid record from Sierra Nevada, southern Spain [Journal-article]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 319, 108343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108343

Jiménez, Laura, Freixa, Anna, Besolí, Neus, & Sabater, Sergi. (2023). Resistance but not recovery is related to the role of specialist taxa in river communities submitted to hydric stress [Journal-article]. Science of The Total Environment, 871, 161952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161952

Sabater, Sergi, Freixa, Anna, Jiménez, Laura, López-Doval, Julio, Pace, Giorgio, Pascoal, Cláudia, Perujo, Núria, Craven, Dylan, & González-Trujillo, Juan David. (2023). Extreme weather events threaten biodiversity and functions of river ecosystems: evidence from a meta-analysis. Biological Reviews, 98(2), 450–461. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12914

Jiménez, Laura, Conde-Porcuna, José M., Garcia-Alix, Antonio, Toney, Jaime L., Scott Anderson, R., Heiri, Oliver, & Pérez-Martinez, Carmen. (2019). Ecosystem Responses to Climate-Related Changes in a Mediterranean Alpine Environment Over the Last ~180 Years. Ecosystems, 22(3), 563–577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0286-5

Jiménez, Laura, Rühland, Kathleen M., Jeziorski, Adam, Smol, John P., & Pérez-Martínez, Carmen. (2018). Climate change and Saharan dust drive recent cladoceran and primary production changes in remote alpine lakes of Sierra Nevada, Spain. Global Change Biology, 24(1), e139–e158. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13878