Assistant Professor
University of Texas, San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Fernando Campos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He obtained a BS in Biology from Caltech, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Calgary, and carried out postdoctoral work at Duke University and Tulane University.
Fernando's research aims to understand how social and ecological experiences that accumulate across the life course are linked to individual differences in health, behavior, survival, and fertility. He uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate these topics through the long-term study of wild nonhuman primates. As the closest living relatives of humans, primates offer unique potential for understanding biological processes that we share with them, including behavioral, physiological, and molecular mechanisms that connect socioenvironmental factors with important life course outcomes. Fernando codirects research on aging in wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica, and collaborates on aging research in studies of wild baboons and other primates.
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Biodemography of Aging, Celebrating James W. Vaupel, PhD.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET
3 - Stress and Death: Glucocorticoids and Survival in a Wild Primate Model of Aging
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET