About

Marine biologist by training. Quantitative ecologist by deformation.

I am a marine biologist and marine mammal ecologist with a particular interest in how ecological processes can be understood through marine predators. My work has focused largely on dolphins and other marine mammals in the Mexican Pacific, where I have combined field observations, stable isotope ecology, molecular approaches, and quantitative modelling.

My academic training has taken me from marine biology and marine resource management to doctoral research in marine sciences focused on spotted and spinner dolphins in the Mexican South Pacific. Across these projects, I have become increasingly interested in integrating trophic, population, behavioural, and environmental information rather than treating them as separate components of ecological systems.

Quantitative analysis is also an important part of how I work. I use Bayesian and hierarchical modelling, spatial analysis, machine learning, and reproducible computational workflows both in my own research and in collaborative projects.

Education

Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional

PhD in Marine Sciences · 2026
The role of spotted and spinner dolphins as ecosystem sentinels of the Mexican South Pacific

MSc in Marine Resource Management · 2020
Foraging habits of spotted and spinner dolphins in the central coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, inferred by stable isotopes of N and C

Universidad del Mar

BSc in Marine Biology · 2018
Foraging segregation between two sympatric dolphin species: Stenella attenuata and Stenella longirostris in the central coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, inferred by stable isotopes

Research training

McGill University

Research internship · June–September 2025
Amino-acid compound-specific stable isotope analysis applied to marine mammal ecology.

Hosted by Dr. Melissa McKinney in the Ecological Change and Environmental Stressors Laboratory.