Inés Sastre de Jesús

Inés studied biology at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, graduating in 1975 with a bachelors of science. She completed a master’s degree of science in Ecology at the University of Tennessee in 1979, completing a master’s thesis entitled “Ecological life cycle of Buchenavia capitata (Vahl.) Eichl., a late successional species in the rainforest of Puerto Rico”. In 1987 she obtained her Ph.D at the City University of New York in Biology with a thesis entitled " A Revision of the Neckeraceae Schimp. and Thamnobryaceae Marg. & Dur. in the Neotropics”. From 1990 to 1991, Inés was a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. She completed her academic training as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.