Dr. Andrés J. Cortés holds an Associate Research position as
Geneticist at the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (AGROSAVIA), CI
La Selva. He graduated as a Plant Geneticist (PhD) from Uppsala University
(Sweden), and as a Biologist (BSc Hons, MSc) from Universidad de los Andes
(Colombia). His research experience dates back to the International Center for
Tropical Agriculture (CGIAR – CIAT), the University of Fribourg (Switzerland),
the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL–SLF),
and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Andrés J. Cortés is
interested in investigating the genetic adaptive potential in plants and trees
of agro-ecological interest using genomic, evolutionary, and ecological tools.
In particular, he has explored abiotic stress tolerance and genetic diversity
in beans, rootstock-mediated inheritance in avocado trees, genetic adaptation
to climate change in willow species, and adaptive diversification across
various plant lineages at the Páramo—a rapidly-evolving ecosystem that provides
water resources for the Neotropics.
