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Liliana Cortes-Ortiz
Assistant Research Scientist
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, January 2003, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia. Norwich, Norfolk, England
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
Contact information
University of Michigan
Museums Annex Room 138
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: (734) 615-9950
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: lcortes@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Evolution of neotropical primates
Academic background
Dr. Cortes Ortiz received her PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2003; her dissertation on the evolution of howler monkeys was mainly directed by Dr. Eldredge Bermingham of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1998, she received a Master’s degree in Neuroethology from the Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, Veracruz Mexico, with a dissertation on the mating behavior and social system of howler monkeys. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidad Veracruzana in 1992. She joined the faculty of Universidad Veracruzana, as a permanent research professor at the Tropical Research Center (2003-2005). At the University of Michigan she is an Assistant Research Scientist since September 2004 in a shared position between the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Zoology.
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