Randall Jimenez

Randall Jimenez is a conservation scientist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He works on implementing science team projects by developing metrics and methods for science-based targets for nature. Specifically, he works with the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric, which measures the contribution that actors around the world can make to reduce species' extinction risk. This metric helps actors target their activities to achieve conservation outcomes and contribute to global policy objectives. Additionally, he is a professor at the Faculty of Biology at Universidad Latina, where he teaches courses such as Biogeography and Biostatistics.

He holds a B.A. in Tropical Biology, an M.Sc. in Wildlife Conservation and Management, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Ulm University in Germany. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, D.C., where he worked with the skin microbiome of Appalachian salamanders. His expertise lies in threatened species conservation, particularly amphibians, spatial data modeling for biodiversity, spatial ecology, bioinformatics, metagenomics, and microbial ecology. Dr. Jimenez has field experience in tropical and temperate forests in Central and North America and has authored several scientific publications.