Curriculum Vitae
Juan was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He received his BSc and Masters in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where he studied the evolution of immune systems in primates. For his PhD he was working on epigenetics and gene expression of different migration patterns of birds, in the Behavioral Genomics research group under the supervision of Dr. Miriam Liedvogel at Max Planck Institute, using high throughput sequencing approaches to unravel the molecular mechanisms controlling different traits in the migratory behaviour with blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) as model organism. Juan defended his thesis in spring 2015 and wrapped up his work as a postdoc in the Liedvogel group.