Education
2012 – 2015 - PhD in Evolutionary biology
Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN - France).
2009-2011 - MSc in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics
Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich (Germany).
2005-2009 - BSc - Major in Biology with a minor in Anthropology
University of Los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia).
Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (MNHN - France).
2009-2011 - MSc in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics
Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich (Germany).
2005-2009 - BSc - Major in Biology with a minor in Anthropology
University of Los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia).
Research experience
Since 01/2019 – Independent researcher. Working from the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier (France) and the Laboratoire d' Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systèmes amazoniens (French Guiana)
Ecology and evolution of toxic moths harmful for humans
01/04/2017 – 31/12/2020 – Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier (France)
Predation experiments to understand the evolution of transparency in butterflies in collaboration with the evolutionary biologists Doris Gomez and Marianne Elias and the physicists Serge Berthier and Christine Andraud.
01/04/2016 – 30/03/2017 – Research assistant at the entomology collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
Specimen digitalisation as part of the project lead by Rodolphe Rougerie exploring global biodiversity patterns of saturnid and sphingid moths.
01/11/2012 – 11/12/2015 – PhD at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
Doctoral thesis: Origin and maintenance of the adaptive variation in heterogeneous environments, supervised by Violaine Llaurens and Marc Théry (MNHN, CNRS).
01-02/2012 – Organization of Tropical Studies (Costa Rica)
Intensive 5 weeks field course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation, included the development of 8 different small projects, each comprising hypothesis formulation, methodology and data collection, statistical analyses, and oral and written presentation of results and discussion.
2012 – 2011 – Zoological Collection of the Bavarian State and Technical University of Braunschweig. Munich and Braunschweig (Germany)
Master thesis: Analysis of the morphological evolution of Mantellid frogs from Madagascar (Mantellidae): a possible case of adaptive radiation, supervised by Prof. Miguel Vences and Prof. Dirk Metzler.
2010 – Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Boston (USA)
Internship in Prof. Jonathan Losos’ lab. Measurement and analysis of morphological characters in Anolis lizards under the guidance of Katharina Wollenberg.
2009 – University of Los Andes, Bogota (Colombia)
Bachelor’s thesis title: Variation of the colour perception by the potential predators on the different morphs of the frog species Oophaga histrionica (Dendrobatidae: Anura), supervised by Adolfo Amézquita.
Ecology and evolution of toxic moths harmful for humans
01/04/2017 – 31/12/2020 – Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier (France)
Predation experiments to understand the evolution of transparency in butterflies in collaboration with the evolutionary biologists Doris Gomez and Marianne Elias and the physicists Serge Berthier and Christine Andraud.
01/04/2016 – 30/03/2017 – Research assistant at the entomology collection of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
Specimen digitalisation as part of the project lead by Rodolphe Rougerie exploring global biodiversity patterns of saturnid and sphingid moths.
01/11/2012 – 11/12/2015 – PhD at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
Doctoral thesis: Origin and maintenance of the adaptive variation in heterogeneous environments, supervised by Violaine Llaurens and Marc Théry (MNHN, CNRS).
01-02/2012 – Organization of Tropical Studies (Costa Rica)
Intensive 5 weeks field course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation, included the development of 8 different small projects, each comprising hypothesis formulation, methodology and data collection, statistical analyses, and oral and written presentation of results and discussion.
2012 – 2011 – Zoological Collection of the Bavarian State and Technical University of Braunschweig. Munich and Braunschweig (Germany)
Master thesis: Analysis of the morphological evolution of Mantellid frogs from Madagascar (Mantellidae): a possible case of adaptive radiation, supervised by Prof. Miguel Vences and Prof. Dirk Metzler.
2010 – Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Boston (USA)
Internship in Prof. Jonathan Losos’ lab. Measurement and analysis of morphological characters in Anolis lizards under the guidance of Katharina Wollenberg.
2009 – University of Los Andes, Bogota (Colombia)
Bachelor’s thesis title: Variation of the colour perception by the potential predators on the different morphs of the frog species Oophaga histrionica (Dendrobatidae: Anura), supervised by Adolfo Amézquita.