Julian Monge Najera

Julián Monge-Nájera
Monge Nájera in 2005
Born (1960-06-06) 6 June 1960
Alma materUniversidad de Costa Rica
Known forScientific Adviser to the BBC (Sir David Attemborough's Trials of Life and Life in the Undergrowth) and the National Geographic Society, Member, Biogeography Society, Paris, Director University of Costa Rica Press.
Scientific career
FieldsEcologist, Evolutionary biology, History of Science, Distance Education, Art Photography

Julián Monge-Nájera (born June 6, 1960) is a Costa Rican ecologist, scientific editor, educator and photographer. He has done research with the following institutions: Universidad de Costa Rica, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Universidad Estatal a Distancia. His scientific work has been featured by The New York Times; National Geographic; the BBC; Wired; IFLoveScience; The Independent (London) and Reader's Digest, among others. He is a member of the expert panel that sets the environmental Doomsday Clock; Onychophora curator in the Encyclopedia of Life; and team member of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.