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Camila is an MS Wildlife Studies graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Banos. She formerly affiliated to Cavite State University as a part-time Biology instructor. The short experienced of working as an instructor substantially improved and advance her knowledge in Biology, such that she was ready to take advance courses in Wildlife Biology and then design and conduct her own research studies.

During Camila's graduate work for the Master of Science in Wildlife Studies, she specialized in herpetology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. Her research project involved a comprehensive inventory of the amphibians and reptiles of Mt. Guiting-Guiting Natural Park, of a poorly-studied island in the central Philippines (Sibuyan Island). Focusing on community composition along elevational gradient. She was not only introduced to field methods of studying diversity, ecology, phylogeography, and bioacoustics of the amphibians and reptiles of Mt. Guiting-Guiting and other Philippine islands, but also to the joys and woes of adapting and rethinking research projects. Through her research, she grew accustomed to not just being involved, but also designing and leading all aspects of the research process.

Her diverse/adverse experiences and unique but expanding suite of research skills have prepared her to be an engaged and successful researcher, and her eagerness to fulfill her role in the near future and become a successful career scientist.

She is now working as the University Extension Associate 1 at the UPLB Museum of Natural History.