Hi!
I’m a postdoctoral researcher of CONICET at the Institute of Regional Ecology in Tucumán, Argentina. I was born in Colombia and started my career hoping to become an agronomist, but somehow I ended up as a biologist interested in community ecology. In 2018 I got a Ph.D. fellowship to study crop pollination at Northwestern Argentina; since then, I have been enjoying asado, mate, empanadas and, of course, the 40 °C during Tucumán’s summer.
I created this website to share my work and my general interests outside academic formality.
Current research
I am interested in combining different modeling approaches and field experiments to understand how spatial patterns affect biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. Currently, I’m mainly involve in two projects : (i) developing a control system for pollination service management in blueberry crops, and (ii) assessing how low opportunity cost areas in large-scale monoculture of citrus can boost taxonomic and functional diversity of pollinators.
Research interests
- Functional diversity and ecosystem services
- Pollinators and mammals
- Landscape ecology
- Community ecology
- R programming
- Data science
- Bayesian statistics
What I like
- Biking.
- Literature (Dostoyevski, García Márquez, Sábato, and Vasili Grossman are personal friends).
- Asado –BBQ in english.
- Dark beer.
- Animals in general, but particularly pollinators, bats, cats and dogs.
My Family
