Luis Fernando De León

Luis Fernando De León is a Panamanian evolutionary biologist. He is an assistant professor of biology and evolutionary biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, research associate at the Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología de Panamá (INDICASAT), and level I member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) in Panama.[1]

Luis Fernando De León
Alma materUniversity of Panama (B.S.)
McGill University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary Ecology, Adaptive radiation
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Boston
Doctoral advisorAndrew Hendry
Websitewww.deleonlab.com

Education

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Luis completed a B.Sc. in Biology at University of Panama in 2002.[2] He earned a Ph.D. from McGill University in 2011.[2]

Research

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Luis Fernando De León has published over 40 peer-reviewed scientific papers which together have received over 700 citations.[3] His research focuses on adaptive divergence and speciation, human impacts on evolution, eco-evolutionary dynamics. His lab works primarily on Darwin's finches and weakly-electric fishes in the order Gymnotiformes.[2] He was invited to be the Saul Speaker at Middlebury College in 2020.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Panama SNI". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  2. ^ a b c "UMass Boston Faculty Profile". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  3. ^ "Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  4. ^ "Middlebury College Biology News". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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