Education

• B.S. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 1996.
• M.S. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2001.
• Ph.D. Biology/Plant Sciences. The City University of New York and The New York Botanical Garden. 2007.
• Post-doctoral fellow. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán. 2007-2009.
• Sabbatical. University of California, Riverside. 2015-2016.

Current research

• Systematics and Floristics

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Neotropical Flora: Alternanthera.
• Mesoamerican Flora: Alternanthera.
• Study of endemic Alternanthera species in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
• Center for domestication of Amaranthus cruentus.
• Interdisciplinary study of native Mexican populations of amaranth to identify their center of domestication and assess agricultural traits that allow cultivar improvement.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Arya, S., Iamonico, D., Sánchez-del Pino, I., & Kumar, V. N. S. A. 2021. Alternanthera indica (Amaranthaceae), a new species from Kerala (India). Phytotaxa, 482(2), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.482.2.7.
• Sánchez-del Pino, I., A. Alfaro, R. H. Andueza-Noh,
A. Mora-Olivo, M. Chávez-Pesqueira, A. Ibarra-Morales, M. J. Moore, and H. Flores-Olvera. 2020. High phylogeographic and genetic diversity of Tidestromia lanuginosa supports full-glacial refugia for arid-adapted plants in southern and central Coahuila, Mexico. American Journal of Botany. 107(9): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1536.
• Aguilera-Cauich, E.A., K. Z. Solís-Fernández, A. Ibarra-Morales, R. Cifuentes-Velásquez e I. Sánchez-del Pino. 2020(2021). Amaranth: distribution and morphological diversity of the genetic resource in parts of the Mayan region (southeast of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras). Acta Botanica Mexicana 128: e1738. https://doi.org/10.21829/abm128.2021.1738.
• Solís-Fernández, K., Aguilera-Cauich E.A., Cifuentes-Velásquez R., Flores-Olvera H., Andueza-Noh R. & Sánchez-del Pino I. 2020. High morphological diversity of Amaranthus cruentus (Amaranthaceae) and its putative wild ancestor revealed by pistillate floral characterization in the proposed domestication center of origin. Phytotaxa 439 (3): 217-230. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.439.3.4.
• Sánchez-del Pino, I., Vrijdaghs A., De Block P., Flores-Olvera H., Smets E.& Eliasson U. 2019. Floral development in Gomphrenoideae (Amaranthaceae) with a focus on androecial tube and appendages. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 190: 315-332. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boz017.

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2013-to date. Level I. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. CONACyT
• 2014. The Percy Sladen Memorial Fund. The Linnean Society of London.
• 2015-2016. Sabbatical Scholarship. CONACyT.

RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES

• https://www.facebook.com/CICYoficial/videos/360504687925292.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTvYt_w6ns&feature=youtu.be.
• https://twitter.com/CICYoficial/status/1117812498789535744.
• https://web.facebook.com/ivonne.fc.395.

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

• Research into the genera Amaranthus, Alternanthera and Tidestromia based on taxonomic, morphological, anatomical, molecular and phylogenetic studies.
• Phylogeography of Amaranthus cruentus.
• Research into floral evolution of various genera within the Subfamily Gomphrenoideae.
• Gypsophile flora from the Mexican Tropics.
• Internship: Agricultural, anthropological and nutritional evaluation of cultivated and wild varieties of Amaranthus to battle malnutrition in rural schools in Yucatan.