Ph.D., Louisiana State University
B.Sc., Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Courses I teach:

Bird Biology and Diversity
General Ecology

Selected Publications:

Claramunt, S., C. Sheard, J. W. Brown, G. Cortés-Ramírez, J. Cracraft, M. Su, B. C. Weeks & J. A. Tobias. 2025. A new time-tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification. Current Biology 35: 3883–3895.

Claramunt, S., E. L. Braun, J. Cracraft, J. Fjeldså, S. Y. W. Ho, P. Houde, J. M. T. Nguyen & J. Stiller. 2024. Calibrating the genomic clock of modern birds using fossils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 121(39):e2405887121.

Claramunt, S. 2021. Flight efficiency explains differences in natal dispersal distances in birds. Ecology 102(9):e03442.

Claramunt, S. & J. L. Cracraft. 2015. A new time tree reveals Earth history’s imprint on the evolution of modern birds. Science Advances 1:e1501005

Claramunt, S., E. P. Derryberry, J. V. Remsen, Jr. & R. T. Brumfield. 2012. High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences 279:1567-1574.

I am interested in the evolution, phylogenetics, systematics, divergence time estimation, flight performance, and dispersal of birds, with a particular emphasis on Neotropical bird diversity.