Karen López

Karen is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the MEEP Lab. She is interested in the evolutionary causes of lineage diversification and morphological change, using molecular phylogenetic and phylogenomic hypotheses as a baseline. This work is being done in collaboration with Hervé Sauquet (Botanic Gardens of Sydney), Yasmin Asar, and Nate Lo.

Karen works with several groups of organisms such as beetles, dragonflies, fairy shrimps, and angiosperms. Recently, she has been exploring the use of meta-analytical approaches to investigate the biotic or abiotic factors that affect rates of morphological evolution in various groups of organisms.

Karen was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Real Jardín Botánico RJB-CSIC in Madrid, working with Dr Andrea Sánchez Meseguer. She completed her PhD in 2022 at Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) and Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC) under the supervision of Mario García París and Isabel Sanmartín. Karen obtained her master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

A list of Karen’s publications can be found on Google Scholar.