Teaching & Mentoring
I believe exchanging knowledge is key to succesful science and such an exchange can happen in different ways. In addition to teaching university courses I try to get involved in the mentoring of students at different levels including high school and undergraduate students as well as graduate students visiting our lab.
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Courses Workshops Mentoring Advising Talks
I believe exchanging knowledge is key to succesful science and such an exchange can happen in different ways. In addition to teaching university courses I try to get involved in the mentoring of students at different levels including high school and undergraduate students as well as graduate students visiting our lab.Click here for more details for each category:
Courses Workshops Mentoring Advising Talks
Formal Courses
Lecturer
Lecturer
- Biogeography. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 2014-2015
- Bio 228 Ecology and Evolution. Lab session-City College of New York. Fall 2016 & 2019
- Sustainable Development. MBA. Universidad de los Andes. 2015
- Biostatistics. Lab session- Universidad de los Andes. 2010-2012
- Evolutionary Genetics. Lab session- Universidad de los Andes. 2011
- Biostatistics. Universidad de los Andes. 2010
- Evolution. Universidad de los Andes. 2010
- Animal Physiology. Universidad de los Andes. 2009
- Mathematics 3. Universidad de los Andes. 2009
Short courses
Workshop co-instructor
SDM Workshop using *Wallace*: Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young West African conservationists . Co-organizer and lecturer with Jamie Kass. Hosted by THRESCOAL in partnership with Project Mecistops and Université de Nangui-Abrogoua. June 23th and 24th 2022 (14 hours). [English and French]
| Asociación Colombiana de Herpetología. August 2021 (24 hours course, 6 days). With invited talks by: Valentina Grisales and Nicolas Urbina. |  |
| Maestría en Conservación y Uso de la Biodvidersidad, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. January 2021. Click [here] for more on Wallace. Co-organized with: María Angela Echeverry, Elkin Noguera-Urbano & Nicolas Urbina. |  |
SDM Workshop using *Wallace*: Reinforcing the capacity for conservation science and planning for young West African conservationists . Co-organizer and lecturer with Jamie Kass. Hosted by THRESCOAL in partnership with Project Mecistops and Université de Nangui-Abrogoua. June 23th and 24th 2022 (14 hours). [English and French]
| Guest speaker for one of three sessions. Organized by NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program. August 17 2021. |  |
| Student Conference in Conservation Science at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. October 2018, 2019 & 2020. Click [here] for more on Wallace. Co-organized with: Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Jamie Kass and Gonzalo E. Pinilla. |  |
Volunteer mentor, supporting girls and women in STEM
Mentor, [1000 Girls, 1000 Futures]. New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Virtually meeting with one or more high school mentees (some from overseas) on a regular basis to talk about life as a woman in STEM and help in completing the NYAS course. 2018-2021
Mentor, [CCNY Women in Science]. The City College of New York, New York, NY. Meeting with one undergraduate mentee on a regular basis to talk about life as a woman in STEM. Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Mentor, [1000 Girls, 1000 Futures]. New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS). Virtually meeting with one or more high school mentees (some from overseas) on a regular basis to talk about life as a woman in STEM and help in completing the NYAS course. 2018-2021
Mentor, [CCNY Women in Science]. The City College of New York, New York, NY. Meeting with one undergraduate mentee on a regular basis to talk about life as a woman in STEM. Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Thesis advising
Felix Specker, MSc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH Zürich (Co-advisor with Dr. Daniel Maynard). Using functional traits to predict coexistence in plant communities through Bayesian hierarchical modelling 2022-2023
Jeffrey Zweidler, BSc in Computer Science at ETH Zürich (Co-advisor with Dr. Daniel Maynard). The impact of plant functional trait choice in inferences of habitat filtering and competition 2022-2023
Nathalia Suarez, MSc Biology program at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Co-advisor with Dr. Nelsy R. Pinto). Present
Yuber Doquersana Ortega, BSc in Biology at Universidad de los Andes (Co-advised by Dr. Andrew J. Crawford). Predictores de diversidad en anfibios de la Amazonía: una aproximación por aprendizaje automático. 2021-2022. Won prize for best biology thesis!.
Laura Hederich, BSc in Biology at Universidad de los Andes (Co-advisor with Dr. Catalina Gonzalez and Dr. Natalia Pardo). 2021. Won 2nd best biology thesis!!
Loren Araque,BSc in Biology at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Co-advisor with Dr. Nelsy R. Pinto). 2019-2021
Miguel Banoy, BSc in Biology at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Co-advisor with Dr. Nelsy R. Pinto). Thesis: Effect of climate change on the distribution of high elevation amphibians in Colombia. 2019-2020
Invited Seminars
Environments shape the distribution of biodiversity at different spatial scales. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) Biodiversity Seminar. June 21st 2023. Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Patrones de biodiversidad y sus relaciones con los ambientes en la Mata Atlántica. Seminario del Programa de Biología Aplicada, Universidad Militar Nueva, Cajicá, Colombia. November 2022. [Spanish]
Observing and predicting patterns of biodiversity using remote sensing data: A study case from the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. GI-Forum, Institute for Geoinformatics, Universität Münster, Germany. October 2021.
Observando la biodiversidad desde el espacio. Seminario del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. October 2020. [Video in spanish]
Invited lectures Observing and predicting patterns of biodiversity using remote sensing data in a machine learning framework Application of Machine Learning in Plant Sciences, 10th Summer school of the Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center . September 2022, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Los modelos de nichos y sus aplicaciones y usando Wallace para hacer modelos. Biología de anfibios. Undergraduate class. Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Invited by Dr. Andrew Crawford April 2022.
Wallace: un software para estimar distribuciones de especies y cuantificar cambios en la diversidad. For Biodiversidad y Cambio climático. Undergraduate class at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Invited by Dr. Catalina Gonzalez May 2021
Aplicaciones de modelos de distribución de especies en biología evolutiva at Universidad de Pamplona. Curso introductorio de Modelado de Nicho Ecológico y de Distribución de especies invited by Grupo de Investigación en Ecología y Biogeografía. November 12th 2020
Observing biodiversity from space. Ecología de Comunidades at Pontificia Universidad Javierana invited by Dr. Sandra V.Flechas. November 11th 2020
Aplicaciones de modelos de distribución de especies en biología evolutiva at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada. For Tópicos Avanzados en Cambio Climático invited by Dr. Nelsy R. Pinto. October 22nd 2020
Invited lectures