Carolina Reyes-Puig

Carolina Reyes-Puig holds a PhD in Biodiversity, Genetics, and Evolution from the University of Porto, Portugal. She is a researcher and professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and curator of the Vertebrate Section of its Museum of Zoology. Her research focuses on the taxonomy, systematics, and conservation of Neotropical vertebrates, as well as spatial modeling applied to conservation. She has published more than 50 scientific articles and taken part in the description of more than 40 species new to science.