Education
- 2019: PhD. In Applied Zoology
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Thesis: Resilience of interspecific relationships in the freshwater environment: insights using mussel-fish interactions.
Department of Zoology and Fisheries Faculty of Agroecology, Food and Natural Resources Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic.
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- 2021: Master of Statistics and Data Science
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Thesis: An exploration of global and local importance measures to identify important predictors in machine learning models
University of Hasselt, Belgium
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- 2017-2019: Master of Natural Resources and environment
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Thesis: Improvement of in-vitro culture techniques for unionid bivalves
Department of Zoology and Fisheries Faculty of Agroecology, Food and Natural Resources Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic.
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- 2010-2016: Bachelor of Biology
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Thesis: Some New observations on the freshwater oyster Acostea rivolii (Deshayes 1827)
National University of Colombia
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Research interests
I am a biologist and data scientist with a passion for applying modern statistical and data science techniques in ecology and environmental sciences. Thanks to the advances in automatic data collection, modern ecological studies now have the opportunity to collect large amounts of data in the form of images, sounds and videos, however the quantity of data collected surpasses many times the capacity of the researchers to process it using traditional analysis approaches. I’m interested in integrating state of the art computer vision and machine learning techniques into ecological research to harness the power of such datasets and answer relevant questions in applied and pure ecology.
During my career I have worked mainly with aquatic invertebrates, but I'm happy to contribute and apply my knowledge in different systems and fields.
Experience
2023-: Associate Researcher, Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research (ITAW), University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (foundation)
2022-2023: Doctoral researcher, Czech University of life Sciences (Czechia), Researcher for the project “Ongoing global invasion of zoonotic parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis: an assessment of risks of its emergence in Europe”, task included experimental design and data collection of parasitological data and vectors.
2020-2023: Doctoral Researcher, Nutrisk Centre (Czechia), Researcher in the section of fish and freshwater ecotoxicology, tasks included design of experiments, collection and analysis of behavioral and ecotoxicological data.
2016-2017 Environmental consultant, Ingetec (Colombia), Consultant for the environmental department, tasks included analysis of biodiversity and ecological data for infrastructure projects, report writing, field work, meeting with clients.
Recognitions - Awards
- 2021 Best Oral presentation, European Congress of Malacological Societies.
- 2019 Best Master thesis in the category of Zoology of the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life sciences
- 2017 Government scholarship of the Ministry of Education of Czech Republic
A list of Publications
