Dr. Canle graduated in chemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1990, where he also defended his graduation thesis on the same year.

Between 1991 and 1993 he worked as researcher in ecology of the marine environment at Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), where he participated in various research projects, from historical data series of relevant ecological data to the analysis of the main factors affecting the recruitment of juveniles of different species. Unfortunately, following the consequences of the ecological disaster following the sinking of the tanker Aegean Sea off the coast of A Coruña (NW Spain)on December 3rd, 1992, took a big part of his efforts at the IEO. 

Simultaneously, between 1990 and 1994 he developed his PhD Thesis on the understanding of different chemical processes of interest taking place during water disinfection for human consumption and in sewage treatment. He obtained the PhD in Chemistry at the University of A Coruña in June 1994.
In December 1994 he began his academic relationship with the University of A Coruña, as Assistant Lecturer.

He carried out various research stays at different institutions, in all cases working within the field of chemical reactivity and photoreactivity, with special emphasis on environmentally and biochemically relevant reactions:

- visitor researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University College of Dublin (Ireland), 6 months.
- invited lecturer and researcher visitor at the Department of Chemistry,  University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) , 1 year
- Marie-Curie staff researcher at Max-Planck Institut für Strahlenchemie (Germany), 2 years
- guest researcher at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), 3 months
- guest researcher at the Institute for Basic Research in Organic Chemistry of Fukuoka (Japan), 2 weeks.

In 2001 he got a permanent position as Associate Professor (Profesor Titular de Universidad) at the University of A Coruña, where he continues to work nowadays. He is currently Co-ordinator of the Masters Degree in Environmental & Fundamental Chemistry, and Vice-Dean of Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences.

He is author of more than 85 publications, including scientific articles in high impact international journals, technical reports and educational papers, various chapters in books, as well as numerous papers in congresses specialized in their areas of work. Among these, he has made relevant contributions toward:

i)    the understanding of the oxidation of amines, amino acids, thiols and organic sulphides during both water disinfection and the initial respiratory burst in cells,
ii)    the understanding of the way different ubiquitious persistent organic pollutants degrade upon uptake of sunlight, following UV irradiation or by heterogeneous photocatalysis

His main research interests focus on:

- the mechanism through which degradation of the main water pollutants take place, and more specifically persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, priority pollutants, etc., focusing mainly on pesticides, drugs and personal care products,
- the mechanism through which oxidation reactions involved in processes of inflammation, biological aging and cell-death take place at an intracellular level,
- developing new clean and sustainable technologies for the degradation of persistent organic pollutants.
In addition, he is interested in scientific communication in general, with special emphasis on the divulgation and socialization of Chemistry.