Curriculum vitae
Camilo completed his BSc at the University of Antioquia (Colombia) with Dr Juan Felipe Blanco, where he worked in identifying the factors influencing the fish assemblage structure at multiple scales in the endangered tropical dry forest. He was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Master in Aquaculture, Environment and Society from the prestigious Erasmus+ programme, where he worked with Dr Eugenia Apostolaki in his dissertation addressing the impact of aquaculture on the subtidal macroalgae grazing dynamics using metabolomics and stable isotope tools. He has experience as a lecturer in river ecology, aquatic ecology and aquaculture consultant and as collection manager in a natural history museum. He is currently working with Dr Kathrin Lampert in the CRC1439 RESIST project, where he is investigating the response to anthropogenic stress from the population to the genetic level of the European bullhead (Cottus sp.) in the highly modified Emscher catchment.
Selected publications
Escobar-Sierra, C., Velázquez, V. M., Menezes, R., Rosa, R. S., & Loaiza-Santana, A. (2021). An updated reef fish checklist of the southernmost Caribbean reef system, with comments on the lionfish invasion. Biota Colombiana, 22(2), 70-87.
Blanco JF, Carvajal JD, Escobar-Sierra C, Jiménez LF, Lasso CA & Sánchez-Duarte P. 2014. Diadromy as evolutionary convergence in fish, shrimp and snails in the peri-contienetal basins of Colombia. Serie Editorial Recursos Hidrobiológicos y Pesqueros Continentales de Colombia. Instituto de Investigación de los Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH). Bogotá, D. C., Colombia. Digital ISBN: 978-958-8889-26-9. (Book chapter)
Blanco JF, Escobar-Sierra C & Carvajal-Quintero JD. 2014. Gorgona, Baudó and Darién (Biogeographic Chocó, Colombia): model ecoregions for coastal stream ecology studies. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, 62(1), 43-64.
Selected presentations
International conference in marine science. "Mediterranean aquaculture impact on subtidal macroalgae community: a case study from the Aegean Sea (Greece)". Medellín, Colombia. November 20, 2018.
50th-anniversary meeting ATBC and OTS. “Factors influencing longitudinal patterns of streams fishes in a coastal semi-arid landscape (Caribbean dry forest, Colombia)”. San José, Costa Rica. June 23-27, 2013
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