Bio
Hello there! I’m a mexican PhD biologist studying tropical insects’ ecology and amphibian conservation in tropical environments. I like all the little critters that secretly run our world.
Education
- Ph.D. Zoology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- MSc Biological Sciences (Ecology), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México, 2022
- BSc Biology, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México, 2020
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS:
- 16/January/2024 – 15/February/2024. Organization of Tropical Studies Research Fellowship #1454 [William L. Brown Fellowship (Fund 515) and Hovore-Horn Fellowship (Fund 523)]. For the project Bobbing and aggregation as defence strategies in Opiliones in La Selva research station, Sarapiquí, Costa Rica.
- 1/August/2021 – 31/July/2023. CONACYT national scholarship for graduate studies.
- 15/October/2021. CONCYTEP scholarship for undergraduate thesis projects. 2020 – 2023. ENTOPOC initiative full-paid membership for the Entomological Society of America.
- 11/Feb/2019 – 19/May/2019. VIEP scholarship for performing a research project in the framework of the “Haciendo Ciencia en la BUAP” program, hosted by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
MEMBERSHIPS:
- 2020 – 2024. Entomological Society of America Student Member (ID 107142).
- 2022 – 2023. Entomological Society of Canada Student Membership – TCE Online
- 2019 – 2020: Mexican Paleontology Society A.C. membership
PRIZES:
- 17/November/2023. Student Competition for the President’s Prize. First Place - Student MUVE and SysEB: Behavior, Genetics, and Biodiversity On-Demand Presentations. Presented to Damian Villasenor-Amador at the 2023 Joint ESA Annual Meeting. November 13-17, 2023 Michigan, USA.
- 16/November/2022. Student Competition for the President’s Prize. First Place - Student MUVE and SysEB: Behavior, Genetics, and Biodiversity On-Demand Presentations. Presented to Damian Villasenor-Amador at the 2022 Joint ESA, ESC, and ESBC Annual Meeting. November 13-16, 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
SIMPOSIA:
- 28/June/2024. Scientific poster presentation: Combating the sixth mass extinction: how deep learning can help us save insects. At the 1st International Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applied to Animal Behaviour Analysis held at INAOE, Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico.
- 30/October/2023. Speaker at the Online 2023 Joint ESA, ESC and ESBC Annual Meeting with the presentation Speed in tropical wolf spiders is driven by external temperature rather than the morphological variation of carrying an egg sac
- 16/November/2022. Speaker at the Online 2022 Joint ESA, ESC and ESBC Annual Meeting with the presentation Diversity patterns of leaf litter weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) along an elevational gradient in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve
- 28/October/2022. Speaker at the Online Weevil Workers Meeting 2022 with the presentation Leaf litter weevil richness increases with altitude in a tropical-temperate transitional forest in northeastern Mexico
- 3/December/2020. Speaker at the Latinoamerican Seminar of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (SELEA), held by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México and Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia, with the live presentation What is the host diversity of mosquitoes between urban and wild environments?
- 25/November/2020. Speaker at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, with the on demand online presentation First record of overcompensation in a wild distylous plant induced by a sap-sucking insect
- 9/October/2020. Speaker at the VI national meeting of native fauna in anthropized environments, held by the Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México, with the online presentation Phytophagy of planthopper Monoflata pallescens (Hemiptera: Flatidae) in a cloud forest shrub: the effect on inflorescence reproductive performance
- 2/October/2019. Speaker at the XVI national meeting of the Mexican Paleontology Society, held by the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, México, with the live presentation Ecomorphology of extinct lizards Huehuecuetzpalli mixtecus and Tepexisaurus tepexii of the lower Cretaceous of Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla
PROFFESIONAL EXPERINCE
- 15/September/2023 – 08/December/2023. Teacher assistant in the course Evolutionary Ecology and Sustainability endorsed by the Instituto de Ecología A.C., Mexico. 75 lecture hours imparted throughout a twelve-week period.
- 16/May/2023 – 30/May/2023. Teacher assistant in the field course BIO-2003-IR01U where 50 lecture hours were imparted throughout a two-week period. The course was taught to a group of 8 students, half attending Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the other half attending McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.
- 24/May/2022. Funding member of the nature preserve Cloud Forest Amphibian Sanctuary of Cuetzalan, Puebla, México.
- 8/February/2022. Funding member and Secretary of the ONG Conservación de Anfibios A.C. EXTRACURRICULAR COURSES:
- 10/January/2023 – 13/January/2023. Attendance at the 16-hour intensive course on Generalized Linear Models in R, taught by Dr. Manuel Spinola Parallada from the National University of Costa Rica.
- 2/May/2021. Certificate of completion of the workshop Intermediate course on geographic information systems with free software QGis 3.16 and Garmin BaseCamp. MS Romeo Alejandro Sánchez Zavalegui (ID 11785330).
- 17/April/2021. Certificate of completion of the workshop Basic course on geographic information systems with free software QGis 3.16. MS Romeo Alejandro Sánchez Zavalegui (ID 11785330).
- 31/May/2017 – 6/July/2017. Certificate of completion of the workshop Biostatistical analyses with Python. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
- 12/October/2015 – 16/October/2015. Certificate of completion of the workshop Introduction to Basic Bioinformatics with R. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Appointments
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Department of Zoology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Secretary General at Conservación de Anfibios A.C., México
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Fellow of the Organization for Tropical Studies, La Selva Research Station, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
Other products
- Conservación de Anfibios A.C. https://conservacion-anfibios.org/