Ph.D. Ecology & Conservation

Assistant Professor: Inst. of Biology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)

Associate Editor: The American Naturalist, Functional Ecology & Individual-Based Ecology

PI: Ecology of Individual Variation Lab (LEVIn)

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After realizing my lack of talent in soccer, I became interested in how individual variation arises in nature and how it affects the structure and functioning of populations, communities, and ecological interactions.​ My research is theory-driven and empirically-based; I aim to understand how ecological processes transcend biological organization levels to shape biodiversity patterns in space (from local to global) and time. I study diverse taxa, from tiny indoor invertebrates to gigantic Amazonian fruit-eating fishes. My ongoing research combines local and large-scale biodiversity patterns, food web / community ecology, and socio-eco-evo systems.

I grew up in Central Brazil, not that far from the Pantanal wetlands. I obtained my Ph.D. from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, in December 2018. During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at Rice University (USA) and the University of Otago (New Zealand). I have also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at McMaster University (Canada)​ and Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). In January 2020, I joined the Animal Biology Department at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil) as an Assistant Professor.

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