Cristian is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Faculty Fellow at CDLS, and close collaborator of Aradhna Tripati’s lab. He earned his B.Sc. in Biology from Universidad del Valle in Colombia (2015) and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona (2020). He currently leads the Data Diversity Lab at the University of Arizona. The lab has three main areas of research. First, we are interested in examining the drivers of large-scale patterns of biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales. Second, our work focuses on examining how species have responded to changes in climatic conditions during the recent past. Third, the lab develops tools and releases data under an open science perspective in accordance with state-of-art approaches in data science and similar disciplines.