Ana M. Valenzuela Toro

I am a Chilean paleobiologist at CIAHN Atacama, a public-private research institution in Chile. I earned my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and am an Associate Researcher at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. My work focuses on the paleoecology and evolutionary history of marine mammals, integrating fieldwork, museum collections, stable isotopes, and comparative morphology. Beyond my main research, I am committed to making science more inclusive, contributing to multiple initiatives and publications on equity and diversity in academia.