Academic activities
Research visits, academic service, teaching, mentoring and scientific engagement
Research visits
International Research Visit
Plant Ecology Lab - Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
2021 · PhD Programme and Thesis
Host Researcher: Gonzalo Rivas-Torres, PhD
International Research Visit
ForestPlots Offices - School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
2019–2020 · PhD Programme and Thesis
Host Researcher: Oliver L. Phillips, PhD
Academic & Scientific Service
Peer Reviewer
The American Naturalist · University of Chicago Press, USA
2026
Peer Reviewer
Zubía Journal · Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, Spain
2026
Peer Reviewer
Aquatic Sciences · Springer Nature
2025–2026
Expert Reviewer
Working Group II Contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
2022
Peer Reviewer
Special Monograph Environmental Education: Crucial Importance for Our Planet · RUNAE Journal · Universidad Nacional de Educación, Ecuador
2017
Advisory Committee Member
National Environmental Education Plan · Ministry of Education, Ecuador
2017
Teaching & Mentoring
Teaching Assistant - Summer Courses
Ecology and Environment Research Group
Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain.
2020–2023
Course Coordinator
Practical Tools for Sustainable Brand Positioning in the Context of COVID-19 for Companies in Ecuador
Plura Consulting, Denmark.
2020
Content Proposal
Basic Course on Carbon Monitoring in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Conceptual and Methodological Basis
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador.
2019
Co-Advisor - Undergraduate Thesis
Optimal Sample Size for the Estimation of Biomass in Necromass Substrates in Two Forest Types in Napo Province, Ecuador.
Universidad Central del Ecuador
2019
Lecturer
Introduction to Biology
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador.
2017
Instructor
Naturalist Guides Course for the Galápagos National Park
ECOLAP · Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Isabela Island.
2015
Academic events
Event Planning Team
Celebration of International Forests Day: Integrating Science, Training and Bioentrepreneurship for Forest Conservation.
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam & Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Ecuador.
2019
Event Planning Team
Workshop: Science and Technology Strategies of Ikiam University: A Perspective in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador.
2017
Conference Planning Committee
I National Meeting of Ethnobiology
Universidad San Francisco de Quito & CIPACUNA, Ecuador.
2016
Conference Planning Committee
21st Century Watershed Technology Conference and Workshop: Improving Quality of Water Resources at Local Basin and Regional Scales.
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador.
2016
Event Planning Team
Funding and Collaboration Opportunities with the European Union within the Framework of the Horizon 2020 Programme
Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam & SENESCYT, Ecuador
2016