I am a Peruvian herpetologist. I am deeply interested in ecology of evolution of reptiles, specially of South-America, and to take my knowledge and projects into the communities of Latin America to link them to the international science community.
After acquiring years of research and fieldwork experience in Peru, and becoming a founding member of the Peruvian Institute of Herpetology (IPH), I moved to Germany to pursue my postgraduate studies. I acquired my master’s degree in the University of Bonn and I moved to Berlin to start my PhD studies in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin with the Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, and the support of Reassembly.
My PhD project aims to study if and how the snake community and its predator-prey relationships are restored along a gradient of forest regeneration in the Chocó forest of Ecuador. For this, I am intensively surveying snakes and gathering ecological data in habitats varying from active agriculture and early regeneration agricultural areas, towards primary evergreen forest. The Chocó ecosystem is particularly abundant in snakes, which allows me to gather enough data to apply a combination of methods such as: niche overlap analysis, systematic literature review (PRISMA-EcoEvo), occupancy modeling, and stable isotope analysis.
