Igor Berkunsky is a conservation ecologist and Principal Researcher in CONICET. He directs the Multidisciplinary Institute for Ecosystems and Sustainable Development at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, where he also leads a laboratory dedicated to amphibian reproduction and coordinates the institution’s environmental restoration program. He holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and has published more than ninety peer-reviewed papers on the ecology and conservation of threatened vertebrates. He is a founding member and treasurer of Fundación Somuncura.