Andrés Quiñones

I am an evolutionary biologist interested in combining experimental and theoretical approaches to understand social systems. I develop mathematical and computational models of the evolution of social behaviours, and I have done field experiments to discover the mechanisms behind these social behaviours.

At the moment, I am a posdoctoral researcher at the behavioural ecology group in the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. My current project is about developing computational models of the learning processes inspired by cleaner fish, if you want to know more about this click here. During my PhD in Groninge the Netherlands, I worked on a variety of topics revolving around the evolution of social behaviour, among them: cultural evolution, the evolution of eusociality and the evolution of cooperative breeding. If you want to know more about it, you can go to here, where you can also download my thesis, or go to my publications page.

I am still a novice photographer, but I like taking pictures very much. If you want, the take a look at some of my pics below.

Partly due to my Colombian background I have strong opinions about drugs and drug policy. I tried to explain some of those opinions in a essay, if you are interested and can understand Spanish ask me for a copy.