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Raimon Cuxart Erruz

Research Interests

• Macroecology & Macroevolution
• Developmental Biology & EvoDevo
• Vertebrate Biodiversity
• Thermal Ecology

Publications

2024

• Cuxart-Erruz, R., Van Dooren, T. J., van der Geer, A. A., & Galis,  F. (2024). Increased incidences of cervical ribs in deer indicate  extinction risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(39), e2406670121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2406670121   

Education

since 2024

PhD in the Animal Ecology Group, Institute for Biology, Martin‑Luther‑University Halle‑Wittenberg, Germany

Main  focus: Macroecological patterns on the thermal vulnerability of reproductive output: Fertility & Embryonic Development. Entity-relationship database building, curation and analysis in collaboration with the Special Topics Network “European Thermal Fertility Network” and the ShareTrait Initiative.

2022 - 2023

Research fellowship in the Vertebrate Evolution,  Development and  Ecology group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden,  the Netherlands

Main project: “High incidence of cervical ribs indicates extinction  risk in inbred deer: On  Late Pleistocene giant deer, Père David deer  and extant outbred deer".  In collaboration with Frietson Galis, Tom van  Dooren & Alexandra van  der Geer.

2021 - 2022

Master’s Degree in Biodiversity: Conservation and  Evolution from  Valencia University. Specialty in Animal Biodiversity and  Conservation

Master's Degree Final Thesis: “Developmental  origins of the axial  organization in Pterosaurs”. Supervised by Prof.  Borja Figueirido  Castillo in Malaga University, Spain.

2017 - 2021

Bachelor’s Degree in General Biology from the Autonomus University of Barcelona.

Bachelor’s Degree Final Thesis: “Evolution of the  Functional  Morphology of the Lumbar Region in Tetrapods”. Supervised by  Prof.  Francesc Muñoz Muñoz in the Autonomus University of Barcelona. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/248542   

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