Professional Experience

2025-present, Coordinator of the Master’s and PhD Program in Science and Engineering (MyDCI), Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California

2024, Competitive Exam for Tenure and Appointment as Full-Time Tenured Professor, Level C, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California.

2023–2024, Academic Program Coordinator for the Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California.

2021, Merit-Based Competition for Full-Time Tenured Professor, Level A, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California.

2018, Open Call for Full-Time Tenured Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California.

2016-2018 Postdoctoral Research II, in collaboration with Dr. Leopoldina Aguirre Macedo and Dr. Víctor Vidal-Martínez, we investigated the genetic diversity of helminth parasites of Paralichthyidae, marine fishes from Mexico Gulf as part of Mega-Project from ex-CIGoM Consortium. 

2014-2016 Postdoctoral Research I, under the leadership of M. Cristina Damborenea, was focussed on a particular group of Temnocephalans (Temnocephala genus), symbionts specific to freshwater invertebrates and vertebrates and postulated to have originated in the Neotropics. In this study, I exploried the transition of the free-living strategies to strict parasitism. I am interested in the origin of parasitism in the evolutionary history of the plathelminths and their subsequent effects on specific hosts.

2013, PhD Research Project, supervised by Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León, was focused on parametric biogeographical and cophylogenetical approaches using a freshwater fish digenean genus Margotrema, which are specialist helminth parasites of freshwater fishes of the subafamily Goodeinae (Cyprinodontiformes: Goodeidae) endemic to central Mexico, as a biological model system.  Central Mexico is a region of major biogeographical interest as it represents a transition zone (Mexican Transvolcanic Belt) between the Nearctic and the Neotropics.

Research Internships:

• March – July 2012. Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Lab led by Dr. Julio Rozas, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

            Web http://www.ub.edu/molevol/julio/  

•  Sep. 2010. Morphometrics and Phylogenetics Lab led by Dr. Efrain de Luna (Retired Professor), Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, México.

            Web http://edeluna-visitantes.blogspot.com.ar/2010/09/andres-martinez-aquino.html