Education

• Biosciences Institute, University of São Paulo [Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de São Paulo], São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Ph.D. (Biological Sciences/Area: Zoology). Date: February 2021. Advisor: Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha (PhD). Ph.D. project title: Phylogenetic analysis of the Tityus clathratus species group and other Tityus groups and subgenera (Scorpiones, Buthidae) based on molecular and morphological characters.

• Biology department, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle, Colombia. Bachelor in Sciences. Date: July 2013. Advisors: Eduardo Flórez D. (Ph.D.) and Ranulfo González (Ph.D.). B.Sc. project title: Taxonomic revision of the Colombian species of Tityus (Archaeotityus) (Scorpiones: Buthidae). 

Research Interests

• Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Taxonomy.

• Bioinformatics and molecular biology.

• Study models: Order Scorpiones and smaller arachnid orders (Amblypygi, Schizomida, and Uropygi). 

Research experience

• Date: 25 May 2022–25 May 2024. Postdoctoral fellowship. Place: Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY, U.S.. Project: Systematics and evolution of Pedipalpi (whip spiders and whip scorpions): phylogenomics and morphology of understudied arachnids (NSF award: 2003382). Advisor: Lorenzo Prendini Ph.D.

Teaching experience

• Date: 10 Apriḷ–29 October 2021. Complete undergraduate course (Lecturer): 176 h. Place: Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.

• Date: 01 March–28 June 2018. Complete graduate course (Teaching assistant): BIZ0433 - Phylogenetic inference: philosophy, methods and applications (120 h). Teaching advisor: Fernando Portella de Luna Marques (Ph.D.). Place: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Date: 26 January 2018. Short course: Principles of phylogenetic systematics: a theoretical-practical approach (8 h). Event: VI Summer course on Zoology. Organizers: Jairo A. Moreno-González (Ph.D. candidate), Jonathan Lawley (MSc. candidate) and Karla Soares (Ph.D. candidate). Place: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Date: 22 January 2018. Short course: Systematics and biology of Arachnids (8 h). Event: VI Summer course on Zoology. Organizers: Jairo A. Moreno-González (Ph.D. candidate) and Caio Coelho (MSc. candidate). Place: Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

• Date: 09–13 December 2014. Short Course: Systematics and biology of arachnids (40 h). Organization: Carlos Perafán (Ph.D.), the Colombian Arachnological Group and the Colombian Entomological Society. Place: Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia. 

• Date: 10–14 December 2012. Short Course: Systematics and biology of arachnids (40 h). Organization: Carlos Perafán (Ph.D.), the Colombian Arachnological Group and the Colombian Entomological Society. Place: Universidad de los Llanos, Villavicencio, Colombia. 

Journal referee experience

• Acta Amazonica. Year: 2023. Manuscripts: 1.

• Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. Year: 2021. Manuscripts: 1.

• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.  Years: 2020–2021. Manuscripts: 2. 

• Cladistics. Years: 2022. Manuscripts: 1. 

• El Boletín Científico del Centro de Museos de la Universidad de Caldas. Year: 2016. Manuscripts: 1.

• Invertebrate Systematics. Year: 2024. Manuscripts: 1.

• PLOS ONE. Year: 2022. Manuscript: 1. 

• Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. Year: 2014.  Manuscript: 1. 

• Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Naturales. Year: 2018. Manuscript: 1. 

• Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. Year: 2017. Manuscript: 1. 

• Subterranean Biology. Year: 2024. Manuscript: 1.

• ZooKeys. Year: 2016–2025. Manuscripts: 3. 

• Zoosystematics and Evolution. Year: 2022. Manuscripts: 1.

• Zootaxa. Year: 2015–2025. Manuscripts: 6. 

Thesis advisor experience

• Date: 2020–2023. Role: Co-advisor. Master thesis tittle: Systematics and taxonomy of Schizomida (Arachnida: Pedipalpi): evaluating the role of the male genitalia. Student: Iara Siqueira B.Sc. Advisor: Leonardo Carvalho (Ph.D.). Institution: Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Floriano (PI), Brazil.

Thesis advisory committee experience

• Date: December 2020. Undergraduate thesis tittle: Use of microhabitats by scorpions in a Dry Tropical Forest fragment from Cerro Hondible, Carmen de Bolívar, Colombia. Candidate: Eiderson Salazar. Institution: Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.

• Date: November 2015. Undergraduate thesis tittle: Scorpion fauna (Chelicerata: Scorpiones) in Dry Tropical Forest fragments from Atlantic department, Colombia. Candidate: Eider Sara Castillo. Institution: Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.

Event organization committee experience

• Event: VII Latin American Congress of Arachnology. Place: Santa Marta, Colombia. Date: December 2023. 

• Event: II Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution (SBE): The Research of Biodiversity and the Diversity of Researchers. Place: Online. Date: 19–23 June 2021.

• Event: VI Summer course on Zoology. Place: Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Date: January 2018.

Awards and Scholarships

• Date: May 2020. Award: Ernst Mayr Travel Grant, Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge ($ 1,500 USD).

• Date: May 2019–October 2019. Scholarship (BEPE-FAPESP) for a Ph.D. student with an outstanding curriculum to perform a research internship abroad ($14,185 USD). 

• Date: May 2019. Award: Kurt Milton Pickett Intercontinental travel award, Willi Hennig Society Meeting, University of California at Berkeley ($ 1,200 USD).

• Date: April 2016. Award: American Arachnological Society (AAS) Vincent Roth grant for systematic studies ($ 300 USD).

• Date: March 2016–June 2020. Scholarship (FAPESP) for Ph.D. students with an outstanding curriculum ($ 45,525 USD). 

• Date: December 2011. Award: Second place winner of the Best Poster Presentation in the Undergraduate student category. Event: III Latin American Congress of Arachnology. Place: Hotel Las Camelias, Montenegro, Quindio, Colombia. Title: A new genus of schizomids (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from the Central Colombian Andes.

Languages

• English: Intermediate (B2).

• Mandarin: Beginner (HSK2). 

• Spanish: Mother Language. 

• Portuguese: Intermediate.

Computational Skills

• Basic Knowledge: R, BASH, LaTeX, Python.

• Advance Knowledge: Terminal Unix.

Phylogenetic inference software skills 

• Intermediate Knowledge: BEAST, Garli, JModelTest, Mr.Bayes, PartitionFinder and RaxML.

• Advance Knowledge: IQTREE, POY, and TNT.