Short CV

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Evolution and systematics of fossil and extant ferns and lycophytes. Systematics, biogeography and conservation of Neotropical extant ferns and lycophytes with special focus on Caribbean species.

WORK EXPERIENCE
• April 2021-present Postdoc researcher in the Department of Geobiology, Faculty of Geosciences and Geography, University of Göttingen, Germany.
• 2017-2021, 1998-2016 Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática (Institute of Ecology and Systematics), Havana, Cuba.
Positions:
2017-2021 Senior researcher in the Division of Botany, Curator of ferns and lycophytes in HAC herbarium
2010-2016 Senior researcher in the Division of Botany, Main Curator of HAC Herbarium
2004-2010 Assistant researcher, Division of Botany
2000-2004 Junior researcher, Division of Botany
1998-2000 Graduate student, Division of Botany

EDUCATION
• 2002-2009 Ph. D. in Biological Sciences, Institute of Ecology and Systematics.
• 1998-2001 Master in Botany, “Systematics in vascular plants” National Botanical Garden, University of Havana.
• 1993-1998 Bachelor in Sciences, Biology, University of Havana, Faculty of Biology

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• 2018-2021, 2003-2004, 1999-2001 Advisor of diploma thesis at the University of Havana.
• 2018 Professor of the course “Biological Collections”, Master in Botany, National Botanical Garden, University of Havana.
• 2017, 2003-2004, 1999-2000 Professor of practices, Fungi-Botany I, 1st year of Biology, University of Havana.
• 2007-2012 Advisor of Master Thesis, Master in Botany, National Botanical Garden, University of Havana.
• 2003 Professor of practices, course “Systematic and Evolution I”, Master in Botany, National Botanical Garden, University of Havana.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
• 2021 to present Evolutionary history of ferns and lycophytes: aligning molecular divergence time estimates with the global fossil record in amber. Project leader. Funded by the German Research Foundation.
• 2018-2021 Categorization, re-localization and systematics of selected groups of Cuban plants. Project leader. Funded by Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Cuba.
• 2015 Re-localization of Cuban Critically Endangered threatened ferns not seen in the last 50 years. Project leader. Funded by Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund.
• 2014-2015 Exploring the Cuban diversity of Adiantum (Pteridaceae) with emphasis on Cuban and West Indian endemics using chloroplast DNA markers. Project leader. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT).
• 2011 Ferns and lycophytes of Sierra de Cajálbana, Protected Area Mil Cumbres, Cuba, emphasizing in endemic, threatened, expansive and invasive species. Project leader. Funded by Rufford Small Grants.
• 2008-2010, 2011-2014 Invasive plants in Cuba. Management and strategy to prevent aggressive species I and II. Funded by CITMA, Cuba.
• 2004-2006 Digitization of Cuban Pteridophyte Collections. Project leader. Funded by Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• 2003-2005 Digitization of type specimens of main Cuban biological collections. Funded by Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• 2002-2005 Towards the conservation of flora and fauna of Sierra de la Güira, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Funded by CITMA, Cuba.
• 2002-2006 Systematics on Cuban plants. Funded by CITMA, Cuba.
• 1998-2001 Contribution to the systematics, morphology and distribution of Cuban plant species emphasizing on endemisms towards their conservation. Funded by CITMA, Cuba.

AWARDS AND GRANTS
• 2020 Individual Grant of the German Research Foundation for the project “Evolutionary history of ferns and lycophytes: aligning molecular divergence time estimates with the global fossil record in amber”.
• 2015 Grant from Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund for the project “Re-localization of Cuban Critically Endangered threatened ferns not seen in the last 50 years”.
• 2015 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Short Term Grants (91563235) for the project “Exploring the Cuban diversity of Adiantum (Pteridaceae) with emphasis on Cuban and West Indian endemics using chloroplast DNA markers”.
• 2014-2015 International Association for Plant Taxonomy Grant for the project “Exploring the Cuban diversity of Adiantum (Pteridaceae) with emphasis on Cuban and West Indian endemics using chloroplast DNA markers”.
• 2011 Rufford Small Grant for the project “Ferns and lycophytes of Sierra de Cajálbana, Protected Area Mil Cumbres, Cuba, emphasizing in endemic, threatened, expansive and invasive species”.
• 2004 Global Biodiversity Information Facility Grant for the project “Digitization of Cuban Pteridophyte Collections”.
• 2002 Six month’s Guest scholarship conceded by Swedish Institute. “Taxonomic research on Aspleniaceae” in the Regnellian Herbarium and the Laboratory of Palynology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.