In the field: an interview with Martha Muñoz

Abstract

Martha Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Yale University, USA, investigating the evolutionary biology of anole lizards and lungless salamanders. After completing her Biology degree at Boston University, USA, a Fulbright Scholarship at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain, and a PhD with Jonathan Losos at Harvard University, USA, Muñoz worked as a post-doc with Craig Moritz at The Australian National University and then Sheila Patek at Duke University, USA. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor, before moving to Yale University in 2019. Muñoz talks about her fieldwork in Indonesia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and the Appalachian Mountains, USA, including a death-defying dash to the top of a 2500 m mountain in the Caribbean through an approaching hurricane.