EDUCATION
PhD: Biology. May 2018.
Groningen University (RUG), Groningen, Netherlands & Louisiana State University (LSU), Baton Rouge, USA
MA: Spanish Linguistics. April 2004.
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2018 - current
Guest Researcher University of Groningen (RUG), Groningen, Netherlands.
2018 - current
Researcher & Avian Count Coordinator Dutch Center for Field Ornithology (Sovon), Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2012–2016
Research & Curatorial assistant Louisiana State University Museum of Nat. Science, Baton Rouge, LA.
2010- 2012
Research & Curatorial associate Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
2017-Current
Bird tour guide: focus Neotropics Birding Breaks, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2005- 2006
Resident bird guide, Sacha Lodge, Napo River, Ecuador.
PRESENTATIONS
Neotropical Ornithology Congress, San José, Costa Rica, 08/19.
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Groningen, Netherlands, 08/17.
American Ornithologists’ Society, Lansing, Michigan, USA, 07/17.
Evolution, Guarujá, Brazil, 06/29/15.
Neotropical Ornithology Congress, Cusco, Peru, 11/10/11.
American Ornithologists’ Union, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 07/26/11.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 30/03/09.
Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 3/08/09.
Wilson Society and Association of Field Ornithologists Joint Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 10/04/09.
INSTRUCTION EXPERIENCE
Spring 2017
Instructor Biology Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands.
Teaching Community Ecology to Bachelor’s Students; setting up a project involving diet-dependent diversification in birds.
Spring 2013-Spring 2014
Instructor Biology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Teaching Conservation Biology to Bachelor’s students; helping students understand major conservation topics including climate change, extinction, and invasive species and related these to human activities and politics. Helping with setting up presentations on these topics. Preparing and correcting exams.
Fall 2012
Instructor Biology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
Teaching Introductory Biology labs to Bachelor’s students; setting up and helping out in practical labs related to main topics in elementary biology such as metabolism, photosynthesis, genetics.
Spring 2010-Summer 2012
Instructor Biology University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Teaching Introductory Biology labs to Bachelor’s students; setting up and helping out in practical labs related to main topics in elementary biology such as metabolism, photosynthesis, genetics.
Fall 2001-Summer 2004
Instructor Spanish, Volksuniversiteit, Uden, Netherlands.
Spanish language (grammar, speech, writing) and culture/history instruction to people of various ages.
FIELD WORK
Personal contribution of ~250 DNA samples and study skins. Over 200 sound recordings from 8 countries deposited at Macaulay Library and Xeno-Canto. 100+ hours experience working with mist nets and certified use of guns. Includes collecting and survey of organismal groups including amphibians, butterflies, plants, and birds.
Spring 2021: Arequipa, Peru, Universidad de Arequipa, forthcoming
Summer 2014: Sarawak, Malaysia, LSUMNS
Summer 2013: Santa Cruz, Bolivia, LSUMNS & Chiapas/Guerrero, Mexico, MVZ
Summer 2012: Veracruz, Mexico, MVZ and Nevada, USA, UNLV
Summer 2011: Guerrero, Mexico, UNLV MBM
Summer 2010: Chihuahua and Nuevo León, Mexico, UNLV MBM
Software
Co-developer of R package ‘SecSSE’ for multistate analysis of state-dependent diversification that takes into account spurious relation between trait and diversification
SERVICE AND OUTREACH
Reviewer for:
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Ecology
Ecology and Evolution
Wilson Journal of Ornithology
Ornitologia Neotropical
Zoological Science
Fondecyt—Chilean science fund
eBird bird sighting and hotspot reviewer for the Netherlands