University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Liliana Cortés Ortiz

Liliana Cortés Ortiz

  • Assistant Research Scientist
  • Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England
  • Genomic Diversity Lab

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    138 Museums Annex
    1109 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1084
  • Phone: (734) 615-9950
  • Fax: (734) 763-4080
  • Email: lcortes@umich.edu

Fields of study

Evolution of neotropical primates

Academic background

Dr. Cortés Ortiz received her Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in 2003; her dissertation on the evolution of howler monkeys was mainly directed by Dr. Eldredge Bermingham of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1998, she received a master's degree in neuroethology from the Universidad Veracruzana, in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, with a dissertation on the mating behavior and social system of howler monkeys. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from the Universidad Veracruzana in 1992. She joined the faculty of Universidad Veracruzana, as a permanent research professor at the Tropical Research Center (2003-2005). At the University of Michigan she has been an assistant research scientist since September 2004 in a shared position between the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Zoology.

UM affiliations

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Museum of Zoology