Jennifer C Girón, Affiliate
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Museum of Texas Tech University
Email: jennifer.giron@ttu.edu
Dr. Girón is the Curator of Invertebrate Zoology of the Natural Science Research Laboratory at the Museum of Texas
Tech University. She holds a BSc in Biology with emphasis in entomology from the Universidad del
Valle in Cali, Colombia, a MSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Puerto
Rico at Mayagüez, and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University
of Kansas. She is an entomologist with a passion for biological collections, beetle
morphology, taxonomy, biodiversity, systematics, and the Neotropical region. Her research
focuses on beetle systematics and taxonomy, mainly on the Neotropical members of the
subfamilies Entiminae (Curculionidae) and Acidocerinae (Hydrophilidae). She has described over 70 species of beetles new to science, with collaborators from
across the Americas.
Her work with biological collections and biodiversity informatics has made her aware
of the importance of making information publicly available for everyone to reach and
of the need to connect as many pieces of information together not only in her research,
but also in her role as a collection's curator. She is also the manager of the Ontology for the Anatomy of the Insect SkeletoMuscular system and the Coleoptera Anatomy Ontology, and one of the coordinators for the Grupo Coleoptera de Colombia. For more information about Dr. Girón and her career, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/jcgiron/home.
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