I am a marine ecologist and researcher at the Reef Systems Unit, of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I have a broad interest in ecology including marine biodiversity, global change biology and conservation ecology.

 

My research is primarily based on the Caribbean, but I also have interests elsewhere including the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the Indian Ocean. I earned my PhD from the University of East Anglia (UK), and was a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University (Canada). I have also worked in the Mexican agency for protected areas and served as a Science Coordinator for the Healthy Reefs Initiative.

 

Awards & responsabilities

 

- World Reef Award and Fellow of the International Society

 for Reef Studies (2017)

- President of the Mexican Society of Coral Reefs (2017-2019)

- Royal Society Newton-Advanced Fellowship (2016-2018)

- Mexican System of Researchers (SNI) Level 1 (2011-2018)

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Ongoing research projects

 

- Effectiveness of  Marine Protected Areas in the Mexican coral reefs (CONACYT , 2015-2017, MXN$ 970,000)

 

-Building capacity for monitoring  functionality of coral reefs  along the Mesoamerican Reef, with Prof. Chris Perry (University of Exeter). Royal Society Newton-Advanced Fellowship, 2016-2018, £ 87,000

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-Long-term ecological changes in habitats dominated by Acropora in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. (CONANP, 2016, MXN$ 500,000)

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Keywords:

Ecology, coral reefs, macroecology, conservation, global change

 

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