Luis Castillo Roque

Luis is a biologist with a master’s degree and an expert advisor for the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in Peru. He is also a Research Associate in the Herpetology Department of the Natural History Museum – UNMSM (Lima, Peru), where since 201,4 he has carried out curatorial activities and research on the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of amphibians and reptiles, as well as the dissemination of scientific results in both scientific and public outreach events.

Additionally, Luis is a former volunteer at Huachipa Zoological Park (Lima, Peru), where he studied the behaviour of the Titicaca water frog (Telmatobius culeus), and a former volunteer park ranger at Junín National Reserve, where he learned the importance of conserving endangered species in their natural habitats.

His undergraduate thesis focused on the ecology of Telmatobius macrostomus tadpoles, and his master’s thesis centred on an educational and community-based science program with this species.
He also serves as President and co-founder of the NGO GRUPO RANA. In early 2018, he received a National Geographic Young Explorer Grant to promote the Conservation Program for Threatened High Andean Amphibians in Central Peru (https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/luis-castillo-roque).

Through GRUPO RANA, he is a partner of the Amphibian Survival Alliance, Amphibian Specialist Group, and the Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) for Mesoamerica and South America.

He is also President of the Peruvian Herpetological Association.