Curriculum Vitae

2025-2026

Principal Investigator. Ukujto Matsi: the chant of the spirits: Collaborative research for the creation of documentary film with the Miraña people of the Amazon). Research project. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2024-2025

Director. The social appropriation of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of the Amazon). Solidarity outreach project, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2024-2025

Principal Investigator. Preserving the Oral Cultural Heritage of the Amazon. MEAP/UCLA.

2024

Principal Investigator. Eetane: Digital Platform of Amerindian Languages. Research project, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2023

Director. Singing and dancing harmonize the territory: The rituals of the People of the Center as a tool for the construction of peace. Solidarity outreach project, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2022

Expert. Communal construction of a revitalization plan of the Carijona language and culture. Puerto Nare (Guaviare). Tropenbos-Colombia, Visión Amazonia.

2021

Director. Construction of pedagogical practices for the local transmission of the Bora language. Solidarity outreach project, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2020-2021

Associate researcher. Strenghtening of the knowldege of the rainforest with the culture and languages of the indigenous groups of the Colombian Amazon. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2019

Director. Ruakɨdo komekɨ jiyode iemo iyazikɨ uiñoga: Con los cantos se alivia el corazón y se cuida el territorio de vida (With the chants the heart is healed). Proyecto de extensión solidaria 2019 (solidarity outreach project) Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

2018-2019

Associate researcher. Linguistic revitalization through the dancing rituals in the urban context (outreach project).  Dirección Nacional de Extensión, Innovación y Propiedad Intelectual, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

2017-2109

Associate researcher. Indigenous Leticia: Tracing territorialities from the borders. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

2015

Principal Investigator. Towards a reconstruction of the Witotoan Linguistic Family: The Nonuya language as missing link. Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Colombia).

2015

Director. Recuperation of the Nonuya language in the Nonuya community of Peña Roja. Solidarity outreach project.  Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2013-2014

Consultant. Contingency Plan for Isolated Peoples in the Pure River Region. Amazon Conservation Team, Bogotá.

2012-2013

Expert. Situation Analysis (sitan) of indigenous childhood and adolescence in Colombia. Unicef.

2010

Consultant. Nonuya language. Ministry of Culture, Colombia.

2008-2010

Principal investigator. Spatial Notions in the Witoto Language. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2006-2009

Regional Coordinator. Rural Development and Grassroots Health based on the use of local resources in four displaced communities in Colombia. Italian Cooperation. 

2006-2008

Principal investigator. Promissory Oleaginous Species of the Witoto. Research project. Colciencias (Colombia).

2005-2009

Associate Researcher. A multimedia documentation of the languages of the People of the Center: DoBeS (Documentation of Endangered Languages), Volkswagen Foundation-MPI.

2004-2005

Principal Investigator. Domestication and Scientific Validation of the Biological Activity of Paullinia yoco. RENACO (Italy).

2004

Technical Coordinator. Territorial Education Program in the multicultural context of the Amazon Region. Colciencias (Colombia). 

2003-2005

Coordinator. Binational cooperation project “Amazon Trapeze: anthropological, socio-economic and political analysis of a frontier space”. ECOS-Nord: Programme de Coopération et de Partenariat Universitaire Technique et Scientifique France-Amérique Latine.

2003

Expert. Script for the Amazon collection. University Museum, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.

2003

Principal Investigator. Use and management of Paullinia yoco. Centro Orientamento Educativo coe (Italy).

2001-2003

Coordinator. Muinane Education Program of the Muinane Comunity of Chukikɨ (Middle Caquetá). Agence Terre des Hommes (Alemania).

2001-2002

Expert. Conceptual bases for the management of national parks and the policy of social participation in conservation. Ministry of the Environment, Colombia.

1997-2001

Principal Investigator. Vegetable Salts: Contribution to the knowledge of an ignored resource. Earth Love Fund (UK)-Colciencias (Colombia)-Gaia Foundation (UK)-icanh (Colombia)-Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

1997

Consultant. Non-timber forest products in indigenous territories. International Timber Trade Organization (ITTO).

Since 2019

Editorial Committee Member. Mundo Amazónico (Instituto Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia).

Since 2012

Member. Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (salsa). Currently: SALSA Webmaster

Since 1988

Member. American Anthropological Association (AAA).

2010-2019

Editor. Mundo Amazónico (Instituto Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia). 

2009-2018

Editorial Committee Member. Revista Colombiana de Antropología (Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia). 

2016-2018

Director, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones IMANI

2012-2014

Professors’ Representative in the Campus Board of Directors.

2011-2014

Publications Director. Amazonia Campus.

2007-2008

Coordinator, Research Line in History and Culture, Master’s Program in Amazonian Studies.

2003-2004

Director of Graduate Studies, Amazonia Campus.

2001-2004

Coordinator, Research Line in History and Culture, Master’s Program in Amazonian Studies.

2000-2001

Director, Linguistics Program, Amazonia Campus.

2000-2001

Professors’ Representative in Campus Board of Directors.

1999-2000

Director of Research, Amazonia Campus.

2020

Alejandro Angel Escobar Award in Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia.

2015

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

2005

Bourse de séjour Legs Bernard Lelong, CNRS. Paris, France.

1998

National Award in Anthropology, Ministry of Culture, Colombia.

1997

Frida Wunderlich Memorial Award for an Outstanding Dissertation, New York.

1993

National Award in Indian Literature, Colombia.

1988-1989

OAS-PRA Fellowship, Organization of American States.

1987-1989

Fulbright Fellowship, USA.