What?

As a quantitative ecologist, I seek to integrate insights from diverse disciplines - including mathematical modeling, phylogenetics, and ecophysiology. I am broadly trained as a plant scientist, with experience in agriculture, botany, ecology, and physiology.

My doctoral dissertation focuses on the interplay between plant reproductive strategies and population level dynamics. I aim to develop novel ways to study seed banks to better inform demographic models. Dormant stages can play an essential role in shaping and maintaining the population viability of many species. Properly accounting for these persistent stages is critical to produce more accurate models, specially under conditions of rapid environmental change and disruption of long-standing disturbance patterns.

I am working in the D4 Ecology Lab under the guidance of Dr. Pedro Quintana-Ascencio.