I apply ecological, genetic and computational approaches to understand the mechanisms that shape fish distribution and life-history across different spatial and time scales. My ultimate goal is to make predictions on the effects of global change on biodiversity and to apply the acquired knowledge to the management of vulnerable and endangered species.

I have graduated with a PhD in Biology from Pablo Marquet's Lab at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where I asked questions at a macroecological and evolutionary scale, exploring which are the spatial and historical factors that drive fish migrations. My project was funded through a CONICYT Doctoral Fellowship between 2015 and 2019 by the Chilean Government .

My research interests focus mainly on the ecology and evolution of fishes using a variety of different statistical and laboratory tools. I graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology from the University of New Mexico (UNM) in the U.S.A., where, I studied and worked on the conservation genetics of several endangered native freshwater fishes in Thomas F. Turner's Fish Genetics Lab. I have also had the opportunity of participating in different biomedical projects within the UNM School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, where I participated in a project studying the consequences of hypoxia on the physiology and phenotype of a murine model organism and at the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A., where I built genomic DNA libraries and operated next-generation sequencing equipment.