Welcome to Manolo Perez website. My main research interests lie in understanding complex diversification processes. For that, I develop new inferential methods using bayesian and and machine learning techniques applied for population genetics, species delimitation, biogeography, phylogenetic and diversification analyses of epidemiological and macroevolutionary datasets. My specific research topics include: (i) species delimitation, phylogeography and population genetics approaches for species with recent diversification; (ii) machine learning approaches applied to phylogenetic information of epidemiological and macroevolutionary datasets; (iii) development of genomic resources in non-model species; (iv) assessment of climate change impacts on the conservation of endangered species.
I am a PhD on Evolutive Genetics and Molecular Biology at Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar)-Brazil. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid. Before that, I was based at the Imperial College London, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris and at the Fish Cytogenetic Lab at UFSCar. I have also visited the Sanmartín Lab and the Faircloth Lab. In my PhD I was advised by Evandro Marsola de Moraes and also spent a few months in Bryan Carstens' Lab.