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Education
Somewhere in southern Ecuador during a botany field trip - good times! (2009). Photo: Paula Iturralde.
PhD Candidate. April 2022-Present. Ecological Neurosciences Group, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University. Sydney, Australia.
Master in Science by Research – Tropical Ecology and Conservation. 2013. James Cook University. Townsville, Australia.
Bachelor in Biological Sciences. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. 2010. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador.
Latest Research and work experience
Assistant Lecturer (Biology, Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Entomology)/Invertebrate Collection Curator. Museo de Zoología Terrestre, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). 2017-2022. Quito-Ecuador.
Collection Curator/Researcher. National Reference Collection of Vector Arthropods. Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública (INSPI). 2014–2016. Quito – Ecuador.
Laboratory technician (identification of agricultural pest insects). Entomology Laboratory. Agencia de Control y Regulación Fito y Zoosanitaria (Agrocalidad). 2013-2014. Quito, Ecuador.
Instructor. Forensic Entomology Practical Course. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. September 2013. Quito, Ecuador.
Research assistant. Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology Lab. 2012-2013. James Cook University. Townsville QLD, Australia.
Curating insect specimens at USFQ's Invertebrate Collection.
Latest Talks
Torres, A.D, Cisneros, D.F. & Ramón, G. 2022. Food preferences and distribution of the argentine ant at the Quito valley. IUSSI – Andes and Caribbean branch. Panama.
Ramón, G., Robson, S. & Welbergen, J. 2019. Microclimatic regulation on nests of Oecophylla smaragdina. XII Colloquium on Social Insects, IUSSI – Andes and Caribbean branch. Ecuador.
Ramón, G., Aguirre, S. 2018. Taxonomic Diversity of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Ecuador, and two new country records. V Congreso Colombiano de Zoología – Simposio de Dipterología. Colombia.
Scholarships and Grants Awarded
Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behavior (ASSAB) Student Research Grant (2022). Highly commended
International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship "iMQRES". Scholarship that covers tuition fees and stipend for PhD studies (2022-2025).
Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association, “Systematics Research Fund”. Research grant to study the diversity of beetles in Ecuadorian Andean dry forests (2018).
Instituto Biosfera – Universidad San Francisco de Quito, “Fondos Semilla”. Research grant to study the diversity of mosquitoes in an Ecuadorian coastal forest (2017).
California Academy of Sciences, grant to attend the Ant Course in Peru (2013).
Secretaría Nacional de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología (SENESCYT, Ecuador), “Convocatoria Abierta” Scholarship for Master studies (2011).
Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Research grant to catalog the dragonflies at the QCAZ Entomological collection (2011).
Collecting in Ecuador to study the diversity of beetles in Andean dry forests. This photo features fellow entomologist Gissela de la Cadena (second from left). The project was made possible thanks to a research grant from the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association in 2019.