WOOLRICH PIÑA, GUILLERMO ALFONSO

Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña is Professor of Biological Sciences at the Tecnológico Nacional de México campus Zacapoaxtla, Puebla, Mexico. He is a biologist who graduated from the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala (FES-I), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His bachelor’s thesis focused on the thermal ecology of Xenosaurus rectocollaris in northeastern Tehuacán, Puebla. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees at the Facultad de Filosofía-Instituto de Geografía, UNAM, with his thesis addressing the ecology, distribution, and conservation of a lizard assemblage from the Valle de Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla; his dissertation centered on the biotic and abiotic factors affecting the distribution of anurans in the Río Salado, Valle de Zapotitlán Salinas. He completed two postdoctoral appointments, one in Earth Sciences, investigating the Cretaceous and Cenozoic
paleoherpetofauna of Mexico, and the second in Biological Sciences, focusing on the effect of climate change on extinction risks of the xenosaurid lizards in Mexico. Guillermo has been studying the herpetofaunal ecology of southern Puebla since 1998. His interest focuses on ecology, paleontology, distribution, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles in central Mexico. To date, he has authored about 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 3 books, and 4 book chapters related to herpetology. Currently, he is participating with colleagues from the Universidad Central del Ecuador, IB UNAM, ENCB-IPN, and University of California, Santa Cruz, on the projects “Thermal ecology and susceptibility to climate change of amphibians and reptiles from the Ecuadorian Amazonian Forest” and “Thermal ecology of lava lizards (Microlophus) and running snakes (Pseudalsophis): implications for
the conservation of the prey-predator system in the Galapagos Islands.” He served as President of the Asociación para la Investigación de los Anfibios y Reptiles AC (AICAR) from 2013 to 2015. He is member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.