Cristian Román-Palacios

BBCS Faculty
Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Information
A headshot of Cristian Román-Palacios.
cromanpa94@arizona.edu

Cristian Román-Palacios is a biologist with expertise in phylogenetics, biostatistics, and machine learning. He has published more than 25 papers (on a range of topics, many first-authored). His research has been featured in Science news, Popular Science, CNN, USA Today, among many other news outlets. Cristian primarily studies large-scale biodiversity patterns from an Eco/Evo perspective and examines the effects of climate change on species survival. He also develops statistical tools to increase accessibility and reproducibility in evolutionary biology and the geosciences.