Juan Carlos Gonzalez

Professor 4, Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB and Director, UPLB Museum of Natural History

Prof. Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez is currently the Director of the UPLB Museum of Natural History and MNH's curator for birds. He is also a Professor of Zoology at the Animal Biology Division of the Institute of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB.

Gonzalez obtained his DPhil in Zoology at Edward Grey Institute for Field Ornithology and St. Anne's College, University of Oxford in 2012 through the support of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program. He earned his MS (1992) and BS Zoology (1997) degrees in UPLB.

His research interests include the following: Ornithology, Wildlife Biology, Conservation Biology, Vertebrate Systematics and Phylogeography, Tropical Evolutionary Ecology and Ethno-ornithology.

He is recipient of the National Academy of Science and Technology (Philippines) 2011 Outstanding Young Scientist Award for Zoology, the UPLB 2008 Outstanding Teacher Award for Biological Sciences, the CAS 2002 Outstanding Alumni for Extension, and the 1992 Luisito S. Cuy Memorial Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Wildlife Biology and Systematics.