Bio

Tatiana Chamorro (she/her) is a PhD student in the Working to Restore Connectivity and Sustainability  (WoRCS) Lab at IRES and is supervised by Dr. Claire Kremen. Her research is interdisciplinary  understanding both ecological and social aspects of agriculture transition from extensive cattle ranching farms in Colombia to a diversified agroecological approach named silvopastoral systems. She did a MSc in IRES supervised by Dr. Claire Kremen where she focused on revealing pathways to scaling out agricultural transformation through understanding enablers and barriers for adoption of silvopastoral systems in Colombia and Latin America. She is highly interested in biodiversity conservation, ecology and social equity. She is a recipient of the Philip A. Jones Fellowship and 4 Year Fellowship. 

Prior to joining IRES, Tatiana received her BSc in Biology from the National University of Colombia. Her previous research was focused on the Knowledge and interactions 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 specie (Stenocercus trachycephalus) changed across an altitudinal gradient in the Andean mountains. 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 the Data Science for All program in Colombia. In her free time, Tatiana enjoys traveling, playing sports (specially volleyball and table tennis), reading, and making youtube videos for her traveling vlog channel @carol_trips.