Team

Jose Vieira
Jose is founder and CEO of ExSitu. He is a biologist from Universidad Central de Venezuela who currently works as researcher and photographer at Tropical Herping and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He specializes in the systematics of amphibians and reptiles as well as in photography aimed at furthering science and conservation.

  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira
  • © Jose Vieira

Duvan Zambrano

Duvan is a biologist from the Universidad del Tolima, Colombia. He works attached to the Herpetology, Ecophysiology & Ethology Research Group of the same university. He works with research in taxonomy, systematics and evolution of reptiles and amphibians. He is currently a collaborator and co-author in several projects in which he focuses on showing the diversity of amphibians, reptiles, butterflies and bats in Colombia.

  • © Duvan Zambrano
  • © Duvan Zambrano
  • © Duvan Zambrano
  • © Duvan Zambrano
  • © Duvan Zambrano

Max Benito

Max is a biologist from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. His main interests are around amphibian and reptile conservation, aswell as in nature photography as a way to spread knowledge and awareness about these animals. He has worked as a researcher in Costa Rica with spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) aswell as volunteering in sea turtle conservation programs. Currently he resides in Spain were he works as a researcher and also teaches courses about identification and biology of iberian herpetofauna.


Diana Stasiukynas

Diana is a biologist from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. Diana works as a field researcher for the organization Panthera in Colombia. Growing up around nature and touring different landscapes in Colombia, Diana developed an intrinsic love for nature, which later on would lead her to work in conservation. Her admiration for big cats allowed her to study their ecology and biology and use them to promote their conservation in Latin America.