Dr. Florencia G. Claveria
Conferred AY 1994-1995
After completing my basic education in Malita, Davao del Sur, I then pursued my Bachelor of Science in Biology at St. Louis University, Baguio City. In 1975, I obtained my Master of Science in Zoology degree from the Ghent State University, Belgium, where I began to develop interest and fascination in research with worms. My thesis centered on the biology of a free living dorylaimid or roundworm nematode, Neoactinolaimus duplicidentatus Andrassy.
Upon my return to the Philippines in 1975, I taught at St. Louis University but I felt there was something missing…”the longing to carry out research”. Armed with a Masters degree then, in 1980, I applied for a teaching post in the College of Science, De La Salle University-Taft. In 1882, having been awarded a Fulbright Hays scholarship, I pursued my PhD in Biological Sciences (major in parasitology) at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and completed the degree in 1987.
The additional four years of postdoctoral training at the National Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University, Japan further honed my research in research particularly on zoonotic protozoan and helminthic infections. My experiences as an administrator in different capacity together with the challenges as teacher and a researcher have further molded me into what I have become today.