Adriana Romero-Olivares

From Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Adriana obtained her B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Molecular ecology and Biotechnology from the Autonomous University of Baja California. Soon afterward, she moved across the U.S.-Mexico Border and received an M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine. Adriana has served as a Diversity and Innovation Scholar at the University of New Hampshire and is now starting her lab at the New Mexico State University beginning in August 2020; she focuses on the ecosystem-scale consequences in biogeochemical cycles of fungal adaptation to global climate change. Adriana has a tattoo of a litter composer on her leg, and she has stayed at 5'9 tall since 12 years old.