Tatiana Chamorro (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Working to Restore Connectivity and Sustainability (WoRCS) Laboratory supervised by Dr. Claire Kremen in the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability. Her research focuses on scaling out sustainable cattle ranching practices in Colombia taking into account the effects of silvopastoral systems on lizard biodiversity and connectivity as well as farmers’ management preferences regarding the use of this agroforestry practice. She is highly passionate about biodiversity conservation and ecology. She is a recipient of the Philip A. Jones Fellowship 2022-2023 and the Four Year Fellowship (4FY).
Before joining IRES, Tatiana received her BSc in Biology from the National University of Colombia. Her previous research was focused on the Knowledge and relationship of a rural community in Quininí, Colombia with the herpetofauna of their region and on How the microhabitat and activity pattern of an Andean lizard species (Stenocercus trachycephalus) changed across an altitudinal gradient. She was the coordinator of the Herpetology research group of the National University of Colombia (Herpetos UN) under the supervision of Dr Martha Lucia Calderón Espinoza during the year 2020. Between degrees, Tatiana worked on scientific divulgation and as a Teaching Assistant at Colombia’s Data Science for All program. In her free time, Tatiana enjoys traveling, playing sports, reading, cooking, and making YouTube videos for her traveling vlog channel carol_trips