Omar Torres-Carvajal

Full professor and reptile curator at the Museum of Zoology (QCAZ), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. I am mostly interested in systematics and biogeography of Neotropical reptiles. My work involves morphological descriptions of new taxa, molecular phylogenies and reconstruction of ancestral distributions. I am currently working on descriptions of new species, molecular phylogenies and biogeographical analyses. As a side project, I am gathering physiological data of a few Ecuadorian lizards to assess the potential impact of global warming. Finally, I am in charge of the reptile section of Bioweb.bio, a resource-rich web portal to the biodiversity from Ecuador.