08/2004–present Ph. D. Student. IDP-Insect Science. Center for Insect Science. University of Arizona. Advisor: Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg

2002–present: Collaborator. “Butterfly Migration Project” Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Sponsor: National Geographic Society. Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert B. Srygley

05/2006–07/2006: Short-Term Fellow. "Brain correlates of Social complexity in ants" Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Supervisor: Dr. William Wcislo, Dr. Wulfila Gronenberg, Dr. Mary-Jane West-Eberhard

09/2003–07/2004 Research Assistant. “Brain Complexity and Behavior in Hymenoptera”, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Supervisor: Dr. William T. Wcislo

09/2002–11/2002 Short Term Fellow. “Experimental test for use of magnetic information for orientation in two tropical hymenoptera”. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Advisor: Dr. Robert B. Srygley

02/2002–04/2002 Andrew W. Mellon Intern. "Relationship between brain development and social behavior in bees". Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth A. Capaldi and Dr. William T. Wcislo

03/2001–06/2001 Research Assistant. "Reproductive biology and pollination ecology of Hybanthus prunifolius on BCI and Gigante". Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Advisor: Dr. David Roubik

Riveros, A. J. and Srygley, R. B. Do leaf-cutters ants Atta colombica orient their path-integrated home vector with a magnetic compass? Animal Behaviour Accepted.

Gronenberg, W. and Riveros, A. J. Social brains and behavior: past and present. To be included in: Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Socio-Complexity (Jurgen Gadau and Jeniffer Fewell, eds.) Harvard University Press.

Riveros, A. J. 2007. On Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians. A book review of Why Size Matters by John T. Bonner. Princeton University Press. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution. 22(3): 115-116.

Riveros, A. J., Hernandez J., Nates G. 2006. Morphological constraints and nectar robbing in three Andean bumble bee species, (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini). Caldasia 28(1): 111-114.

Srygley, R. B., Dudley, R., Oliveira, E., Riveros, A. J. 2006. Experimental evidence for a magnetic sense in Neotropical migrating butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Animal Behavior 71(1): 183-191.

Riveros, A.J. 2003. Mechanisms of navigation in Atta colombica. B. S. Thesis. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogota. Colombia 158 pp.

Srygley, R.B. Dudley, R., Ellington, C.P. Hernandez, E. J. and Riveros, A. J. Optimal migration in passion-vine butterflies Heliconius sara: Quantifying the aerodynamic power required for flight and testing for adaptive wind drift.

Riveros, A.J. and Gronenberg, W. Learning, memory and task specialization in the bumblebee Bombus occidentalis.