Curriculum Vitae
Luisa was born in Ocaña, Colombia, and studied Biology at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, where she graduated in 2010. Within the IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology, she was between 2011 and 2015 working on the "Evolution of the skull shape in mice" in the Department for Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Plön, supervised by Prof. Dr. Diethard Tautz. Luisa started her postdoctoral research in the same group, and in 2016 moved to Princeton University, USA, with a postdoctoral HFSP fellowship where she worked in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. In 2022, Luisa moved back to Germany where she is leading the Max Planck Research Group ‘Evolutionary Genomics of Complex Traits’ in the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, in Tuebingen.