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Dr. Daniel González-Acuña was born on February 8, 1963, in San Fernando, central Chile, and became a veterinarian in 1988, at the University of Concepción. Keen on science and wildlife, he did his PhD studies in Germany, at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover (Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover), receiving his degree in 1997. Professor Eberhard Mey, an expert on lice, was his mentor. His doctoral dissertation was on the ecology and taxonomy of ectoparasites and endoparasites of Chilean birds. When he returned to Chile, he won a faculty position at the University of Concepción as a zoology professor in the School of Veterinary Sciences in Chillán. He spent the rest of his career at the same University, where he became a full professor(AU)