Dr. José Manuel Serrano Serrano holds a degree in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus; a Master of Science with a specialization in Ecology from the Instituto de Ecología A.C.; and a Ph.D. in Science with a focus on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chile, in Santiago, Chile. He has been a National Researcher Level 1 since 2022.

He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Animal Communication Laboratory of the Universidad Católica del Maule in Talca, Chile, where he conducted research on multimodal communication and carried out regional conservation assessments of Chilean amphibians. He later pursued a second postdoctoral fellowship at the “Alfonso L. Herrera” Museum of Zoology at the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, where he studied the effects of urban noise on amphibian calls and the interspecific interactions between frog and cricket calls. In February 2025, he will begin a third postdoctoral fellowship at the Mexican Amphibian Sound Archive (Fonoteca de Anfibios de México), also part of the same museum, to continue researching the acoustic landscape of endemic amphibians in Mexico City.

He has undertaken research stays at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany. He has served as principal investigator for conservation projects in Mexico and Chile, funded by organizations such as the Conservation Leadership Programme, Stiftung Artenschutz, and the Tucson Herpetological Society.

His research focuses on amphibian ecology, behavior, acoustic communication, conservation, and biodiversity studies. He has supervised undergraduate theses and served as a lecturer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Chile, and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus. He has also been invited to teach courses at the Universidad Veracruzana and the Instituto de Ecología A.C. Since 2018, he has collaborated on the development and implementation of the Binational Conservation Strategy for Darwin’s Frogs in Chile and Argentina.