Cristian Román-Palacios

Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at the College of Information Science, UArizona and Early Career fellow at the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, University of California, Los Angeles. Cristian's research is focused on the intersection between evolutionary biology, climate change, and applied machine learning. He is generally interested in answering questions in Evolutionary Biology and developing methods and tools for different fields.

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Coordinación general

Affiliations 8

• University of Arizona Elected Faculty Senator for the College of Information Science
• University of Arizona Faculty senator representative at the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee (currently the University Community Relations Committee)
• University of Arizona Faculty senator representative at the Research Policy Committee
• Fellow at the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science at the University of California, Los Angeles
• The Lovejoy Center at The University of Arizona
• Affiliated Faculty member at the Applied Mathematics GIDP
• Affiliated faculty at Climate change Adaptation and Mitigation through Biodiversity Informatics edUcation and Mentoring (CAMBIUM)
• Faculty at the Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Biomedical Systems program

Papers 5 most recent of 55

Macroevolutionary Rates of Species Interactions: Approximate Bayesian Inference from Cophylogenies Systematic Biology · 2026 2 authors ssarp: An R Package for Efficiently Inferring Species- and Speciation-Area Relationships Ecology and Evolution · 2026 3 authors Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience Science · 2026 22 authors Hurricane power outage burden lands unequally: satellite evidence across 30 Atlantic storms Research Square · 2026 9 authors Machine learning in biological research: key algorithms, applications, and future directions BMC Biology · 2025 Student-led 11 authors

Tools and data 18

SalphyconWeb applicationSalphycon is a shiny app that extends the functionalities of the (phruta) R package. BarrioMapWeb applicationBarrio Map offers fundamental functionalities like finding locations by conducting searches or selecting coordinates. CityCompWeb applicationCityComp is a Shiny app developed to support the use of the comparative framework developed in Arechiga et al.

Grants 11