I am a Peruvian biologist who grew up in the city of Tingo María in the Peruvian Amazon. I studied biology at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima, Peru and later attended the LSU Biological Sciences Graduate Program under the supervision of Prof. Kyle E. Harms. After graduating, I worked with the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, and the University of Toronto. Currently, I am a Visiting Scholar in the Karubian Lab at Tulane University in New Orleans. My main interests are tropical ecology, education and conservation biology. In my free time, I enjoy reading Latin American literature, traveling and spending time with my family.