Our Team
Dr. Raisa Hernández Pacheco
Director
Dr. Hernández Pacheco has dedicated her studies to modeling the effects of environmental factors on structured animal populations. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Puerto Rico after assessing the effects of mass bleaching on coral populations. Right after, she joined the Caribbean Primate Research Center and the Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging to study the long-term dynamics of the Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque population. Her research interests include questions on population ecology and evolutionary demography aimed at understanding why individuals within populations vary.
Current Members
Nalina Aiempichitkijkarn, Ph.D.
Nalina is a postdoctoral researcher working on the evolutionary demography of rhesus macaques at Cayo Santiago.
Ali Bland, M.S.
Ali is a research assistant working on rhesus macaque social group size dynamics.
Sheida Yahyazadehmoghaddam
Sheida is a biology major working on the dynamics of health inequality in nonhuman primates.
Sofia Vasquez
Sofia is a biology major studying associations between body metrics and social factors in rhesus macaques.
