CURRICULUM VITAE
Alejandro Gonzalez Voyer
Alejandro Gonzalez Voyer
Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
Av Américo Vespucio S/N
41092, Sevilla
Spain
E-mail: [email protected]
Spoken and written languages: Fluent in French, English and Spanish; basic knowledge of
Swedish.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Post-doctoral fellowships
Senior (JAE) Post-doctoral fellowship
Seville, Spain
2012-2014
Department of Integrative Ecology,
Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC)
Funded by: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and European Union
Senior (Juan de la Cierva) Post-doctoral fellowship
Department of Integrative Ecology,
Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC)
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Seville, Spain
2009-2012
Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary
Biology Centre, Uppsala University
Funded by: Wenner-Gren Foundations
Uppsala, Sweden
2007-2009
Mexico City, Mexico
2002-2007
Sherbrooke, Canada
1998-2000
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
PhD in Behavioural Ecology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Thesis title: “Evolution of aggressive sibling
competition in parentally fed bird species.”
Supervisor: Dr. Hugh Drummond
Thesis defence: 11-05-2007
Masters degree in sciences
Université de Sherbrooke
Thesis title: “Management of mountain goat
populations: Censuses and population dynamics.”
Supervisor: Dr. Marco Festa-Bianchet.
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FELLOWSHIPS
Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (JAE) senior post-doctoral fellowship
Juan de la Cierva senior post-doctoral fellowship
Junta de Ampliación de Estudios (JAE) post-doctoral fellowship
CONACyT grant (Mexican Science and Technology Council)
PRA fellowship from the Organization of American States
2012-2014
2010-2012
Awarded & declined
2004-2006
2002-2003
RESEARCH FUNDS
Research projects as Principal investigator:
Project title: Speciation and phenotypic diversity: insights from large-scale studies of Neotropical
amphibians.
Funding Agency: Swedish Research Council
Principal Investigator: Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer. Duration: 2014-2017.
(440 000€)
Project title: Patterns of diversification and phenotypic divergence in Neotropical amphibians.
Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Principal investigators: Carles Vilà, Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer. Duration: 2011-2013
(130 000€)
Research projects as Collaborating researcher:
Project Title: Macro and microevolution of heterostyly and related stylar polymorphisms.
Funding Agency: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Principal investigator: Juan Arroyo Marín. Duration: 2010-2012
(215 000€)
Project Title: Brain evolution in vertebrates: comparative analyses of the importance of ecology
and sexual selection on brain structure evolution in cichlids.
Funding Agency: Swedish Research Council (Vetenskaprådet)
Principal Investigator: Niclas Kolm. Duration: 2010-2012
(310 000€)
Project Title: Variations in the biotic interactions and diversity: influence of habitat
fragmentation and insularity in the Caribbean.
Funding Agency: Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI).
Principal Investigator: Juan Arroyo Marín. Duration: 2010-2011
(20 000€, only funds for travel are provided)
Project Title: Consequences of global change on the biotic interactions of plants in mountain
ecosystems.
Funding Agency: Iberoamerican Agency of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED)
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Principal Investigator: Alfonso Valiente Banuet (researchers from 8 countries involved)
Duration: 2009-2012
(133 000€)
Project Title: Brain evolution in Tanganyikan cichlids.
Funding Agency: Wenner-Gren Foundations.
Principal Investigator: Niclas Kolm. Duration: 2008-2010
(53 000€)
COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
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EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network ‘SPECIATION’ Travel grant
Wenner-Grens Foundations, Travel Grant
Foundation for Zoological Research (Stiftelsen för Zoologisk Forskning)
Graduate Student Funding Program (PAEP-UNAM), Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, grant in aid of research
Idea Wild equipment donation
Animal Behaviour Society Developing Nations Research Grant
2012
2008
2008
2005
2004
2003
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Please see up to date list in Web page.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate and Undergraduate courses
Professor. Evolutionary Biology Masters Program, Phylogenetic
Comparative analyses course, University of Seville, Spain.
2011-2012
Professor. Undergraduate Behavioural Ecology course at the
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico (3 consecutive semesters).
2005-2006
Professor. Evolution of Social Behaviour course for undergraduate
students of the Science Faculty in the UNAM. The aim of the course
is to prepare students for their undergraduate thesis in animal behaviour.
2002-2004
Teaching Assistant. Wildlife Conservation and Resource
Management course. Bachelors degree level, University of
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
1999
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Invited Teacher
Transmitting Science, Theoretical- practical workshop: Disentangling
Evolutionary Relationships with Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, Hostalets
de Pierola, Spain
(7-11 October).
2013
Institut Català de Paleontologia, Theoretical-practical workshop: Phylogenetic
Generalized Least Squares (PGLS) methods, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
(26-29 March).
2012
Workshop CYTED/AECID “Structure of mountain plant communities: ecological
paterns and historical and evolutionary processes”, Santa Clara, Cuba
(5-9 December).
2011
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain, Theoretical-practical workshop:
Phylogenetic comparative analyses for PhD students and researchers
(11-12 November).
2010
Workshop CYTED/AECID “Structure of mountain plant communities: ecological
paterns and historical and evolutionary processes”, Cajalbana, Mil Cumbres,
Cuba (12-16 July).
2010
University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Theoretical-practical
‘phyCEAE’ worshop on phylogenetic comparative anlayses, PhD course.
2009
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain: Phylogenetic comparative
analyses a theoretical and practical workshop for PhD students and researchers
(13-14 March).
2009
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain: Phylogenetic comparative
analyses a theoretical and practical workshop for PhD students and researchers
(13-14 March).
2008
University of Tartu, Estonia: Phylogenetic comparative
analyses: theoretical and practical workshop for PhD students and researchers
(16-18 May).
2008
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STUDENT SUPERVISION
Co-director of a PhD student. Diversification, phenotypic and molecular
evolution in Neotropical amphibians. Integrative Ecology Department,
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain.
2012-2015
Supervisor of a Masters degree student. Factors influencing the evolution of
aggressive broodmate competition. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
2013
Supervisor of a Masters degree student. Correlates of the rate of substitution
in Centrolenidae. Evolutionary Biology Masters, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla,
Spain.
2012
Supervisor of a Masters degree student. Ecogeographical patterns of body size
and lifehistory traits in Carnivora. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain.
2012
Co-director of an undergraduate research project. Brain evolution in
Carnivora. Integrative Ecology Department, Estación Biológica de Doñana,
Spain. (Graduated with Honours)
2011
Supervisor of a Swedish PhD research internship abroad.
Project title: Parental care and sperm competition influence the evolution
of egg-dummies in Tanganyikan cichlids. Integrative Ecology Department,
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain. (Manuscript in review in Evolution)
Co-director of an exchange Masters research project. Evolution of
secondary sexual traits in Tanganyikan cichlids. Population Biology
and Animal Ecology Departments, Uppsala University, Sweden.
(Results published in Evolutionary Ecology).
Co-director for an undergraduate thesis. Effect of food amount
on aggressive competition between cattle egret chicks.
Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico.
2011-2012
2010
2006-2007
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INVITED SEMINARS
Gonzalez-Voyer, A. Invited seminar. Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology &
Anthropology, Göttingen University. 2013. Göttingen, Germany. A macroevolutionary approach
to the study of brain evolution.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A. Invited seminar. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Université du
Québec a Montréal. 2012. Montreal, Canada. A macroevolutionary approach to the study of
behavioural ecology.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Padial, J. M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., de la Riva, I & Vilà C. Progress in
Understanding the Origins Of Biodiversity. 2012 Jyväskylä, Finland. Correlates of species
richness in the largest Neotropical amphibian radiation.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A. Invited seminar. Faculty of Biology, University of Seville. 2011. Seville,
Spain. Use of phylogenetic comparative analyses in the study of phenotypic evolution and
diversification.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., N. Kolm. Invited seminar. Seminar Series of the Departments of Behaviour
and Evolutionary Ecology. 2008. University of Berne, Switzerland. Brain evolution in
Tanganyikan cichlids.
CONFERENCES
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., denTex, R., Castelló A., J. Leonard. XIV Congress of the European
Society for Evolutionary Biology. 2013 Lisbon, Portugal. Oral presentation: Evolution of
acoustic and visual signals in Asian barbets.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A. and N. Kolm. 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. 2012 Ottawa,
Canada. Oral presentation: Size does matter: a study of brain evolution using phylogenetic
comparative methods.
Dugo-Cota, A., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Vilà, C. and Gonzalez-Voyer, A. Progress in
Understanding the Origins Of Biodiversity. 2012 Jyväskylä, Finland. Poster presentation:
Influence of population size, morphology, ecology and speciation events on the rate of molecular
evolution in Centrolenidae.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Masahito Tsuboi, Jacob Höglund and Niclas Kolm. XIII Congress of the
European Society for Evolutionary Biology. 2011 Tübingen, Germany. Oral presentation:
Influence of natural and sexual selection on phenotypic divergence during the Tanganyikan
cichlid radiation.
Amcoff, M., González-Voyer, A. and Kolm, N. XIII Congress of the European Society for
Evolutionary Biology. 2011 Tübingen, Germany. Poster presentation: Evolutionary evidence of
sensory exploitation in the Tanganyikan cichlids.
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Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Padial, J. M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., de la Riva, I & Vilà C. XI Congreso
Luso-Español de Herpetología, XV Congreso Español de Herpetología. 2010
Sevilla, Spain. Oral presentation: Correlates of species richness in the largest Neotropical
amphibian radiation
Duarte, H., Tejedo, M., Katzenberger, M., Marangoni, F., Baldo, D., Beltran, J. F., Marti, D.,
Richter-Boix, A., Gonzalez-Voyer, A. XI Congreso Luso-Español de Herpetología, XV
Congreso Español de Herpetología .2010 Sevilla, Spain Oral presentation: Can tadpoles take
the heat? Comparative thermal tolerances in subtropical and temperate amphibian communities
under global warming.
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Winberg, S. & Kolm, N. European Society for Evolutionary Biology, 12
Meeting Torino, Italy, 2009. Poster presentation: Distinct evolutionary patterns of brain and body
size during adaptive radiation.
Padial, J. M., Castroviejo Fisher, S., Chaparro, J. C., Vilà, C., De La Riva, I., Gonzalez- Voyer,
A. VIII Latinoamerican Herpetology Meeting.Varadero, Cuba. 2008 Oral presentation: ¿Por
Qué hay tantos Pristimantis?
Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Winberg, S. and Kolm, N. Ethological and Evolutionary Ecology of
Fishes Biennial conference. 29 June – 3 July 2008, Boston University, Boston, MA. Oral
presentation: Social fish and single mothers: Brain evolution in African cichlids.
González-Voyer, A., Fitzpatrick, J. L. and Kolm, N. Ethological and Evolutionary Ecology of
Fishes Biennial conference. 29 June – 3 July 2008, Boston University, Boston, MA. Second Oral
presentation: Sexual selection determines parental care patterns in cichlid fishes Social fish.
Gonzalez Voyer, A., Székely, T. and Drummond, H. 11th Meeting of the International Society
for Behavioral Ecology 23-29 July 2006, Tours, France. Poster: The evolution of broodmate
aggressive competition.
Gonzalez Voyer, A. and Drummond, H. 42nd Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society 6-10
August 2005, Snowbird, Utah, USA. Oral presentation: “The influence of feeding method, food
amount and early dominance establishment on temporal variation in cattle egret chick rates of
aggression”.
Gonzalez Voyer, A. and Drummond, H. 122nd Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union
16-21 August 2004, Quebec, Qc. Canada. Oral Presentation: “Influence of feeding method on
broodmate aggression in the cattle egret”.
Gonzalez Voyer, A. and Festa-Bianchet, M. 1998 Northeast Wildlife Graduate Student
Conference. March 6-8, Fredericton N-B. Oral presentation: Efficiency of aerial surveys on a
population of mountain goats.
Gonzalez Voyer, A. and Haviernik, M. 6-8 Nov.1998, Montréal Qc. Oral presentation: Vigilance
behaviour in mountain goats: The influence of many factors.
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Gonzalez-Voyer, A., Smith, K. G. and Festa-Bianchet, M. 24th Congress of the Société
Québecoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement. 5-7 Nov. 1999, Quebec, Qc. Oral
presentation: Effects of hunting on native mountain goat populations.
FIELD-WORK EXPERIENCE
Field Researcher. La Mancha, Veracruz, Mexico.
Research project: Broodmate aggression in cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Broods. In charge of the research team, logistics, training of observers,
behavioural observations and measurements of chicks.
2003-2004
Field Researcher. Caw Ridge, Alberta, Canada. Four month summer
field seasons. Mountain goat capture (for marking and data collection) and
behaviour observations (vigilance behaviour) for MSc project.
1998-1999
Research Assistant: Ram Mountain Alberta. Bighorn sheep
study. Capture (for marking and data collection), observations
and general camp maintenance. For: Dr. Marco Festa-Bianchet (U de S)
and Dr. Jon Jorgenson (Alberta Natural Resources Service).
1997
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES AND PEER REVIEW
Member of the organzing committee. 14th Meeting of the Spanish and
11th of the Iberoamerican Ethological Society. Sevilla, Spain (2012).
2012
Member of the organizing committee. Eco-genes 1st international meeting.
Genetics and Genomics in Wildlife Studies: Implications for Ecology, Evolution
and Conservation Biology. Sevilla, Spain.
2011
Member of the organizing committee. 41st Meeting of the Animal
Behaviour Society, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
2004
Peer Review:
- I am a member of the Board of Reviewers of Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
- I am a reviewer for the Spanish National Agency of Evaluation, which reviews
applications for the National Research Funds programs and applications by researchers and
students to other programs such as research stays abroad.
I have reviewed manuscripts for the following journals:
Evolution, American Naturalist, Journal of Biogeography, Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Heredity, Behavioural
Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Ethology, Ecosystemas.
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COURSES & INTERNSHIPS
Courses & Workshops
Introduction to the Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data, Seville, Spain, 5 - 8 March
2013.
Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Europe, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. 12 - 23 January
2009.
Workshop on Gender perspectives on the development of sexual selection theory, Uppsala,
Sweden, October 2008.
Applied Phylogenetics Workshop, University of California, Davis. 8 -15 of April 2006.
Statistics Course “Analysis of biological and field data”, Highland Statistics, Ecology Institute
UNAM, 21 of March to April 1 2006.
Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses Workshop, Biology Institute, UNAM, 16 May 2005.
Research internships abroad
Research internship in Oxford and Bath, UK.
Research project: The evolution of aggressive broodmate competition:
a phylogenetic comparative analysis. In collaboration with Dr. Tamas
Székely of the University of Bath.
2003