Luis José Aguirre López

Ecologist based in Tallahassee, Florida

Academic development

Florida State University - Tallahassee, Florida, USA

UNAM - Mexico City, Mexico

University of Oviedo - Oviedo, Asturias, España

Data Carpentry Workshop: Genomics (2021), online
16 hours
Wallace, a modular software for monitoring species distributions: tour of the workflow and extending functionality with custom R functions (2019), at Quito, Ecuador
4 hours
Workshop: Photo-trapping R (2017), at BUAP in Puebla, Mexico
30 hours

UROP mentorship grant, 2022
for the mentorship of two undergraduate students.
Honorific mention, 2020
for the quality of the thesis work, the oral presentation of the research, and for the academic performance when studying the master’s degree.
CONACYT scholarship, 2017-2019
for graduate students at UNAM.
Santander Iberoamerica scholarship, 2016
at UNAM, Mexico
Santander CRUE-CEPYME internship, 2014
intern in an environmental consulting
ERASMUS scholarship, 2012-2013
at Nevsehir University (Nevsehir, Turkey)

IBS 2019 Humboldt Meeting & 2nd Latin American Biogeography Meeting
at Quito, Ecuador.

Oral presentation: Conservation priorities for Romerolagus diazi based on species distribution models including biotic interactions

Photo-trapping contest & lab students advising

VIII Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl National Park Research Symposium
at State of Mexico, Mexico.

Poster presentation: Studies of the ecology and geographical distribution of mammals in the Iztaccihuatl-Popocatepetl National Park

Department of Geography, FSU
2021-2022, 2023-now
Research Assistant
Project PAPIIT IN217717 - Systematic conservation planning in the Transmexican Volcanic Belt
2017-2019
Fieldwork coordinator

Department of Geography, FSU
2022-2023
Teaching Assistant: World Geography (Spring ‘22), Physical Geography (Summer ‘23), Environmental Science (Fall ‘23)

Instructor: World Geography (Summer ‘22, Summer ‘23), Landscape Ecology (Fall ‘22)

Aguirre-López, L. J., & Escalante, T. (2021). Use of distribution models in the conservation of a Mexican endemic lagomorph. THERYA, 12(3), 571.
Feng, X., Peterson, A. T., Aguirre-López, L. J., Burger, J., Chen, X., Papeş, M. (In review). Rethinking ecological niches and geographic distributions in face of pervasive human influence in the Anthropocene. Biological Reviews.

SEMARNAT (2021). Program of Action for Conservation of Zacatuche (Romerolagus diazi), SEMARNAT/CONANP, Mexico.
Species Distribution Models; Ecological Niche; and Factors linked to biodiversity. Environmental heterogeneity in Escalante, T.; Morrone J. J.; and García-Trejo E. On develop. Manual of biogeography practices. Project PAPIME PE203920 (DGAPA, UNAM)