Pascual is an Associate Professor of Ecology at the University of Valencia (Spain) and research member of the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (ICBiBE) of the same university. His research focuses on population ecology and animal behaviour, with the primarily interest to translate scientific knowledge into pragmatic approaches for decision-making and wildlife management. He is the leader of the Movement Ecology Lab at the ICBiBE (University of Valencia) where he supervises several research lines on spatial ecology of birds of prey, among other species.