My research has aimed to identify structural features of biodiversity to understand evolutionary and biogeographic processes. I'm currently a postdoc at the PLEEBS group in Edinburgh, and an associate researcher in the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (Chile).

In addition, I'm interested in the scientific study of the relationship between societies and environments in global and local scales. As a member of the Chilean community of scientists, I'm also interested in the modernization of the science policy of my country.

Ongoing Projects.

• Genus-level phylogeny for trees (4,193 genera at the moment!)
  In collaboration with Kyle Dexter from The University of Edinburgh, we are developing a new, temporally-calibrated phylogeny with matK and rbcL markers.
• Machine Learning to state the global structure of Biodiversity
  Funded by AI for Earth, Microsoft (2019-2021).
• Southern South American forest plots
  In collaboration with Rodrigo Chaura, we are building a network of forest plots from Chile. At the moment we have more than 100 plots of 0.05 ha.

News

• (21/08/2020) Last peer reviewed paper published

  “Adaptation and coordinated evolution of plant hydraulic traits”. Ecology Letters.

• (06/05/2020) New paper

  “Freezing and water availability structure the evolutionary diversity of trees across the Americas”. Science Advances.