Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

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Santiago Jose Castroviejo-Fisher (born November 13, 1979 ) is a Spanish biologist and herpetologist . His main research interests are the neotropical frogs (anura).

Life

From 1998 Castroviejo-Fisher studied at the University of Seville in Spain, where he graduated in 2003 with a master's degree in biology. After studying for a doctorate from 2005 to 2009 at Uppsala University , he received his doctorate in evolutionary genetics with the dissertation Species limits and evolutionary history of glassfrogs under the direction of Carles Vilà .

From 2009 to 2010 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá , Colombia and from 2010 to 2012 with support from the Fulbright Program and the Spanish Ministry of Education at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City , where he under the direction of Darrel Frost the project Diversification of Evolutionary Radiations: What Can We Learn from Tropical Amphibians? supervised.

Since 2013 he has been an associate professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre , Brazil and a research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History.

In his projects, Castroviejo-Fisher uses a historical approach based on disciplines such as phylogenesis, systematics and biogeography. He focuses his research primarily on amphibians and reptiles of the Neotropics and to a lesser extent on Africa.

In an article in the Spanish daily El País on September 9, 2018, Castroviejo-Fisher criticized the governments that had made this disaster possible after the fire in the Brazilian National Museum .

First descriptions by Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher was involved in the following initial descriptions :

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher: El futuro que ya no conoceremos In: El País of September 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castroviejo-Fisher, Santiago Jose (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish biologist and herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1979