Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University
Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University, 2020– current
Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University, 2015– 2020
Visiting Professor, Sam Houston State University, 2013– 2015
Postdoctoral fellow, Villanova University, 2010–2013
Postdoctoral fellow at CONICET, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 2009–2010
Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, 2009
M.Sc., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico, 2005
B.Sc., Universidad del Valle, Sede Meléndez, Cali, Colombia, 1999
My interest focuses on the consequences of the interplay of developmental and size constraints with functional demands, as well as the pattern of distribution across lineages. I currently specialize in the morphology and evolution of lizards and snakes, particularly geckos. Some of my projects include living and extinct species.
I am a vertebrate morphologist and evolutionary biologist interested mainly in the structural evolution of the musculoskeletal system. I am focused on sphaerodactyl geckos,...