Education

• B.S. in Biology. Universidad Central de Venezuela. 1987.
• M.S. in Biology. University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 1991.
• Ph.D. in Biology. University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 1996.

Current research

• Systematics and Floristics.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Romero-Soler, K. J., I. M. Ramírez-Morillo, E. Ruiz-Sánchez, C. T. Hornung-Leoni, G. Carnevali & N. Raigoza. 2022. Phylogenetic relationships within the Mexican genus Bakerantha (Hechtioideae, Bromeliaceae) based on plastid and nuclear DNA: Implications for taxonomy. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60: 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12674.
• Leme, E. M. C.; G. Zizka, J. Paule; J. Aguirre-Santoro; S. Heller; I. M. Ramírez-Morillo; H. Halbritter, J. E. A. Mariath, J. D. T. De Carvalho & R. C. Forzza. 2021. Re-evaluation of the Amazonian Hylaeaicum (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) based on neglected morphological traits and molecular evidence. Phytotaxa 499 (1): 001–060. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.499.1.1.
• Ramírez-Morillo, I., Hornung-Leoni, C. T., González Ledesma, M. & Romero-Soler, K. J. 2020. “The Old White Lady of Kew Gardens”, Hechtia argentea (Hechtioideae: Bromeliaceae), found her homeland in Mexico. Taxon 69(5): 1042-1051. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12311.
• Ramírez-Morillo, I. M., Germán Carnevali, Juan P. Pinzón, Katya Romero-Soler, N. Raigoza, C. Hornung-Leoni, R. Duno, J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, and I. Echevarría. 2018. Phylogenetic relationships of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 376(6): 227–253. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.1.
• Ramírez-Morillo, I. M., Germán Carnevali, Juan P. Pinzón, Katya Romero-Soler, N. Raigoza, C. Hornung-Leoni, R. Duno, and J. L. Tapia-Muñoz. 2018. The reestablishment of Bakerantha, and a new genus in Hechtioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Megamexico, Mesoamerantha. Harvard Papers in Botany 23(2): 301-312. https://doi.org/10.3100/hpib.v23iss2.2018.n15.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2011. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)/German Academic Exchange Service and Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Institutos de Educación Superior (ANUIES). Financed by Freie Universität Berlin and Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán.
• 2015-Present. Associate editor. Botanical Sciences.
• 2017-Present. Member. International Organization for Succulent Plant Study.
• 2020-Present. Associate editor. Rodriguésia.
• 2020-Present. Member. Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• Technical summary – Systematics and Floristry : 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. CICY Herbarium.
• Native Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula (Spanish).
• Endemic Flora of the Yucatán Peninsula (Spanish).