Jesús A. Fernández
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Fernández is a Mexican researcher who obtained his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. He is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico and a member of scientific societies dedicated to the study of wild mammals. He is currently a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he teaches Systematics and Biodiversity and Conservation Biology. His main research interests are the biogeography and molecular systematics of small mammals in desert environments and temperate forests of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, and their conservation. He is also interested in the diversity and distribution of ectoparasites in mammals and their interactions with humans, and in the ecology of mesocarnivores in deserts and grasslands.
