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

• Vera-Paz, S., Díaz Contreras Díaz, D. D., Jost, M., Wanke, S., Rossado, Gutiérrez-Hernández, R., Salazar, G.A., Magallón, S., Gouda, E., Ramírez Morillo, I., Donadío, S., Granados Mendoza, C. 2022. Novel plastome structural rearrangements discovered in Core Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae) support traditionally defined taxonomic entities. Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.924922.
• Ramírez-Morillo, I. M., Hornung-Leoni, C. T. and Romero-Soler, K. J. 2023. A long-flowering Hechtia (Bromeliaceae): Hechtia sanchezii from San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Botanical Sciences 101(1): 313-323. https://doi.org/10.17129/botsci.3172.
• Vera-Paz, S. I., Granados Mendoza, C., Díaz Contreras, D.D., Jost M., Salazar, G. A., Rossado, A. J., Montes-Azcué, C. A., Hernández-Gutiérrez, R., Magallon, S, Sánchez-González, L. A., Gouda, E. J., Cabrera, L. I., Ramírez-Morillo, I. M., Flores-Cruz, M., Granados-Aguilar, X., Martínez-García, A.L., Hornung-Leoni, C. T., Barfuss, M. H., Wanke, S. 2023. Plastome phylogenomics reveals an early Pliocene North- and Central America colonization by long-distance dispersal from South America of a highly diverse bromeliad lineage. Frontiers in Plant Sciences Volume 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1205511.
• Ramírez, I.; Espinosa-Barrera, L.; Granados-Mendoza, C.; Vera-Paz, S.; Díaz Contreras Díaz, D.; Romero-Soler, K. 2023. Expansions, and contractions of the inverted repeat, as well as gene loss and potential pseudogenization shape plastome evolution in Hechtioideae (Bromeliaceae, Poales). Journal of Systematics and Evolution. http://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13004.
• Ramírez-Morillo, I. M., Ramírez-Díaz, C. J., Ortiz Brunel, J. P. & Romero-Soler, K. J. 2023. Male flowers reveal the true identity of a new species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae) from the Mexican state of Jalisco. Phytotaxa 626(1): 021-031. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.626.1.3.

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).