Projects

  • March 2025 – March 2029. FONDEQUIP MAYOR No. EQY240004: Southern BioImaging Platform SBIP. Collaborator, Universidad Santo Tomás.

  • February 2025 – October 2025. Yessica Lorena Perdomo (PI): “Effect of the biochar-mycorrhiza mixture on coffee crops as a social and sustainable strategy in the rural area of the municipality of Valledupar”. Applied Research Projects – Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina. Co-Researcher.

  • June 2024 – June 2025. SPUN Underground Explorer project: “Molecular identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Kunth in San Martín, Peru”. Co-Researcher, Universidad Santo Tomás.

  • April 2024 – March 2028. Fondecyt Regular Project 1240186: “Harnessing sympatric mycorrhizal microbiomes for conservation of Fitzroya cupressoides, an endangered native conifer in Chile”. Principal Investigator, Universidad Santo Tomás.

  • February 2024 – October 2024. Yessica Lorena Perdomo (PI): “Effect of mixtures of biochar, mycorrhizal-forming fungi and biogestates as plant growth stimulants”. Applied Research Projects – Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina. International Researcher: Marín, C.
  • December 2023 – December 2025. Dr. Diego Martínez-Rincón, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia. “Metagenomic evaluation of the root microbiome in banana crops affected and not affected by “Moko” (Ralstonia solanacerum, Race II) in the department of Quindío”. Postdoctoral research project funded by Sciences Minister, Colombia. International collaborators: Marín, C., Sáenz, P., Sánchez, R.
  • August 2023 – July 2026. Dr. Mariana Valoy, Regional Institute of Ecology – CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina. “Multilevel selection and its implications as an agro-evolutionary management strategy in quinoa crops in Tucumán, Argentina”. Postdoctoral research project funded by CONICET, Argentina. Supervisor: Marín, C. Co-supervisor: Lomascolo, S.B.
  • July 2023 – April 2024. Teaching Research Projects César Vallejo University 2023 No. P-2023-111 (Dr. Geomar Vallejos-Torres, César Vallejo University): Potential of climatic factors and glomalin in organic and inorganic carbon reserves in coffee soils in San Martín. Co-Researcher, Universidad Santo Tomás.
  • April 2023 – October 2024. I Interuniversity Competition for Initiation in Associative Research No. IUP22-20 (Dr. Carlos Maldonado, Umayor): System for monitoring, detection and prediction of areas susceptible to forest fires through artificial intelligence. Co-Researcher, Universidad Santo Tomás.
  • March 2023 – March 2026. Fondecyt Initiation Project No. 11230870 (Dr. Patricia Silva-Flores, UCM): Understanding the variation in dual-mycorrhizal plants associations and their mycorrhizal status along large-scale latitudinal and altitudinal gradients. Collaborator, Universidad Santo Tomás.
  • April 2022 – present. Global mapping of mycorrhizal networks; Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). Associate Researcher, Universidad Santo Tomás. 
  • November 2021 – November 2024. Subsidy for the Installation in the Academy 2021 (ANID – Chile) No. SA77210019: Strengthening in teaching and research of the Doctorate in Conservation and Management of Biodiversity and the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Santo Tomás, in the study of southern soils, their biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Principal Investigator, Universidad Santo Tomás.
  • April 2021 – March 2025. Fondecyt Regular Project 1211655 (Dr. Paula Aguilera, UFRO): Biodiversity and functionality of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: Incorporation of bioinoculants in Viticulture for sustainable production under a global change scenario. Co-Researcher, University of O’Higgins.
  • September 2018 – present. Taproot iDiv project: Global Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function Dynamics. Invited researcher. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany.
  • April 2019 – March 2022. Froward Cape Research Project, UACh – VIDCA, No. 43353934. (Dr. Pablo Corti, UACh). Co-Researcher, University of O´Higgins.
  • April 2019 – March 2022. Fondecyt Regular Project 1190642 (Dr. Roberto Godoy, UACh): Relationship between plant mycorrhizal type and soil fungal assemblages of endangered Araucaria araucana forest in Nahuelbuta National Park, Chile. Co-Researcher, Austral University of Chile.
  • November 2018 – October 2021. Fondecyt Initiation Project 11180869 (Dr. Claudia Rojas, UOH): Understanding the effect of fires on non-mutualistic diazotrophic population structure in Mediterranean native forest soils: towards ecosystem services and natural resilience restoration. Part of the research team, University of O’Higgins, Chile.
  • November 2018 – December 2020. Posdoctoral research project, University of O’Higgins: Diversidad fúngica integral como indicadora de recuperación de la salud del suelo, tras tratamientos orgánicos post-incendio en la VI Región de Chile. Principal researcher. 
  • January 2018 – April 2019. Proyecto Fondo de Protección Ambiental No. 6-RE-002-2018 (Dra. Clauda M. Rojas Alvarado, UOH): Recuperación de salud de suelos y su implicancia en el restablecimiento de bosque nativo incendiado en zonas del secano de la VI Región. Collaborator, University of O’Higgins, Chile.
  • February 2015– April 2017. DFG-SPP Program 1803: EarthShape: Earth Surface Shaping by Biota; sub-project: Biogenic weathering: opening the black box with new isotope systems and in situ mineral decomposition experiments (EarthShape – BioSoils). Student. University of Hannover, Germany; Austral University of Chile, Chile.
  • March 2014 – April 2017. Fondecyt Regular Project 1141060 (Dr. Roberto Godoy, UACh): Soil-age driven inverse coupling of biogenic weathering and nutrient recycling on ecosystem level. Student. Austral University of Chile, Chile; University of Hannover, Germany.
  • September 2011 – October 2014. Evolutionary Agroecology Project. Student. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.