CV

Current Position

  • Origins-of-Life Assistant Professor (Jan. 2023 - Present)
    • Department of Biological Sciences
    • College of Science
    • Purdue University, U.S.A.

Postdoctoral Experience

  • EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2022)
    • Advisor: Dr. Puricación López-García
    • Unité d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution
    • Université Paris-Saclay, France
  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar (Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2021)
    • Advisor: Dr. Jeremy G. Wideman
    • Center for Mechanisms of Evolution
    • Arizona State University, U.S.A.
  • Visiting Scientist (Sept. 2019 - Jan. 2020)
    • Advisor: Dr. Sebastian Hess
    • Institute for Zoology
    • University of Cologne, Germany
  • Visiting Scientist (Jun. 2019 - Jul. 2019)
    • Advisor: Dr. Julius Lukeš
    • Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre
    • Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
  • Postdoctoral Researcher (Jan. 2019 - Jun. 2019)
    • Advisors: Dr. Andrew J. Roger and Dr. Claudio H. Slamovits
    • Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutonary Bioinformatics
    • Dalhousie University, Canada

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2013 - 2018)
    • Advisors: Dr. Claudio H. Slamovits and Dr. Andrew J. Roger
    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    • Dalhousie University, Canada
  • B.Sc. Honors in Biology (2007 - 2013)
    • Advisors: Dr. Juan M. Daza and Dr. John J. Ramírez
    • Instituto de Biología
    • Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Awards

  • EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020), European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Patrick Prize (2020), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
  • Doug Hogue Award (2018), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
  • Beth Gourley Travel Award for Research Excellence (2017), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
  • Holz-Conner Travel Award (2017), International Society of Protistologists
  • President’s Award (2016), Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
  • Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship (2016), The Nova Scotia Government
  • Izaak Walton Killam Predoctoral Scholarship (2016), Dalhousie University
  • 1st Eppendorf ISE-G PostDoc-Preis 2015 (2015), XVII International Society of Endocytobiology - German Section
  • Theodore L. Jahn Eugene C. Bovee 2015 Award (2015), VII European Congress of Protistology and International Congress of Protistology

For a complete CV please contact me at samunozg{at}purdue[dot]edu