Current Investigation
I am also interested in massive data analysis, visualization and statistical methods to extract information from stored bio-ecological information. However, I define myself as a plants lover, that's why other approaches of my research include:
- Forensic Botany: Plants as legal evidences and their role in the flora and legal investigations.
- Medicinal plants: Biochemical and traditional knowledge approach
- Reproductive Biology of Angiosperm: Mating system in flowering plants
Grants and Awards
2017. Grant: The National Geographic Society / Waitt Grants program awarded funds in support of the project "Tropical vs. Temperate plant-pollinator networks: The effect of species richness and phylobetadiversity on the distribution of specialists."
2016. Award. Graduate Program Excellence Award. Department of Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
2015. Award. Graduate Student Poster Award, Methods in Ecology and Evolution anniversary symposium: “Next Generation Ecology and Evolution”, joint with " Methods in Ecology and Evolution" symposium in London.
2015. Award. Graduate Program Excellence Award. Department of Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
2014. Scholarship: Jim and Jean Cragg Doctoral Scholarship in Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
2016. Award. Graduate Program Excellence Award. Department of Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
2015. Award. Graduate Student Poster Award, Methods in Ecology and Evolution anniversary symposium: “Next Generation Ecology and Evolution”, joint with " Methods in Ecology and Evolution" symposium in London.
2015. Award. Graduate Program Excellence Award. Department of Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
2014. Scholarship: Jim and Jean Cragg Doctoral Scholarship in Biological Sciences. University of Calgary.
Previous Research
2005-2006: Throughout my scholar period, I had the opportunity of studying ecological aspects, use and management of a cacti in a dry zone in Colombia, La Guajira peninsula. The main results of this study are published in three peer reviewed papers.
2007-2010: During my master training I became familiar with reproductive ecology of tropical plants in successional stages and its key player: Phenology. My thesis was part of the international project Tropi-dry, leaded by the University of Alberta (Canada). This project aimed to study the tropical dry forest of the Americas. We were successful in understanding the floristic composition of the Venezuelan tropical dry forest, the arrangement of leaves, flowering and fruiting in time.
I thank the following institutions for their support:
2007-2010: During my master training I became familiar with reproductive ecology of tropical plants in successional stages and its key player: Phenology. My thesis was part of the international project Tropi-dry, leaded by the University of Alberta (Canada). This project aimed to study the tropical dry forest of the Americas. We were successful in understanding the floristic composition of the Venezuelan tropical dry forest, the arrangement of leaves, flowering and fruiting in time.
I thank the following institutions for their support:
