Globally, women in many professions, including ours, are still relatively invisible. We believe that these stories are worth sharing. Our project gathers 50 authors (one per country) from different cultures and backgrounds. By sharing our journey in life and career, we will collectively put a spotlight on the diversity of women in our field. We hope this effort will encourage the next generation of herpetologists to follow their dreams.

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ORGANIZERS

DR. UMILAELA ARIFIN

Indonesia

Postdoctoral Fellow
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Germany

DR. ITZUE W. CAVIEDES-SOLIS

México

DR. SINLAN POO

Taiwan

Meet our authors from around the world!

TERESA CAMACHO

Bolivia

Chief of Herpetology Department

Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'orbigny, Bolivia

DR. XIMENA BERNAL

Colombia

Associate Professor. Purdue University

Research Associate. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, USA

DR. JESSICA HUA

Associate Professor

Binghamton University, USA

Argentina

Researcher

Centro de Investigaciones del Medioambiente (CIM-UNLP-CONICET)

Argentina

MARÍA ELENA

BARRAGAN-PALADINES

Ecuador

 Executive Director of the NGO Fundacion Herpetologica

Gustavo Orces, Ecuador

DR. KAREN SIU-TING

Peru

 Postdoctoral fellow

Queen's University Belfast, Ireland

 Museo de Historia Natural, UNMSM  Instituto Peruano de Herpetología

HIRAL NAIK

Zimbabwe

PhD Student

University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa

Program Manager Save The Snakes

Morocco

Head of venoms and toxins laboratory

Institute Pasteur of Morocco 

Morocco

South Africa

Programme Manager

Threatened Amphibian Programme

Chair of IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group - Southern African Region

DR. FATMA GÖZDE ÇILINGIR

Turkey

Postdoctoral fellow

University of Zurich

Switzerland

Singapore

JULIA LEUNG

Hong Kong

Research Assistant

Lingnan University

Hong Kong

SHANELLE WIKRAMANAYAKE

Sri Lanka

Master student

California State University

Northridge, USA

DR. LETICIA  M. ESPIRITU-AFUANG

Philippines

Professor and Curator of Amphibians & Reptiles, Museum of Natural History,

University of the Philippines Los Baños

Laguna, Philippines

Iran

Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Kurdistan University. 

Managing director and co-founder of Pars Herpetologists Institute, Iran

BANDANA ADHIKARI

Nepal

Master's Student

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

China

Professor Emeritus

Chengdu Institute of Biology

Chinese Academy of Science, China 

DR. NATALIA B. ANANJEVA

Russia

Head of Division of Herpetology
Zoological Institute,

Russian Academy of Sciences

DR. RAQUEL VASCONCELOS

Portugal

Postdoctoral Fellow

CIBIO/InBio, Universidade do Porto

Portugal

DR. MELITA VAMBERGER

Slovenia

Researcher, Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Germany

DR. KATHARINA RUTHSATZ

Germany

Assistant Professor
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Germany

DR. ANGELICA CROTTINI

Italy

Researcher, PI of the BioEvol group,

CIBIO/InBio, Universidade do Porto

Portugal

DR. CATHARINA KARLSSON

Sweden

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Center for Integrative Conservation
XTBG, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

DR. JUDIT VÖRÖS

Hungary

Curator

Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles
Department of Zoology
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hungary

DR. JELKA

CRNOBRNJA – ISAILOVIĆ

Serbia

Professor at University of Niš

Senior Scientist at University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", Serbia

EMINA ŠUNJE

Bosnia and Herzegovina

PhD Student, University of Sarajevo President of the Herpetological Association in B&H, Bosnia Herzegovina

University of Antwerp, Belgium

DR. DEBORAH BOWER 

Australia

Senior Lecturer

Ecology and Zoology, School of Environmental and Rural Science.

University of New England,

Armidale, New South Wales Australia