I am a Biologist from Los Andes University (Bogotá) and received a Ph.D. from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). I was a research scientist at ULEAM Ecuador, leading a biodiversity monitoring project in two National Parks. I was also a visiting scientist at Conservation International in the U.S., working with the Tropical Ecology and Monitoring Network (TEAM) terrestrial vertebrate dataset.