Luis Amador

Education

My Ph.D. studies were conducted in the beautiful city of Valdivia, Chile. I was part of the Ecology and Evolution program at the Universidad Austral de Chile with the supervision of Dr. Guillermo D’Elía. I defended my thesis on population genomics of crayfish in January 2021 via Zoom during the pandemic. Previously, I earned a master's degree in Natural Resources Management and Environment and a bachelor's degree in Biology, both from the Universidad de Guayaquil in my home country, Ecuador.

Postdoctoral experience

Right after my doctoral degree, I started to work with Guillermo D’Elía as an associated researcher at the Universidad Austral de Chile on Project Fondecyt No. 1180366 called "Shedding light on the grey zones of the diversification of long-haired mice of the subgenus Abrothrix (Sigmodontinae): species delimitation and speciation genomics". In March 2022, I was happy to work with my favorite animals, the amphibians! With Dr. Lisa Barrow at the University of New Mexico, we were investigating what predicts genetic variation in global amphibians as part of her NSF Project: Determinants of amphibian genomic diversity: Integrating traits, phylogeny, and geography. More recently, in June 2026, I started to work as a postdoc with Dr. Ash Bullard at Auburn University, where we are developing genomics tools to identify largemouth bass, one of the top recreational fish species in the United States.

C.V. Luis Amador

Contact:

Address: CASIC Hall, Auburn University, 559 Devall Dr., Auburn, AL 36849

E-mail: laa0084@auburn.edu