ABOUT ME

As a biologist and researcher, I am interested in gathering natural history information and in understanding the effects of landscape variations on vertebrates. I have started my career at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) studying anuran natural history. After graduating in Biological Sciences, I worked as technician at the Chico Mendes Institute (ICMBio) during 2012, where I took part in the assessment of the conservation status of Brazilian snake species and participated in the publication of the red book of Brazilian threatened species, published in 2018. Later, I acquired my MSc in Animal Biology (also at UNESP). Although my dissertation focused on the ecology and natural history of a snake assemblage from the Atlantic Forest in the Southeast region of Brazil, I also investigated the same topics of the local amphibian assemblage. During my Ph.D. in Applied Ecology (at Universidade de São Paulo), I investigated the relationship between vegetation complexity and the diversity of Squamates in an area of the Cerrado.

 

Shortly after finishing my doctorate, I founded Herp Trips, a company that provides extension courses applied to herpetology. I also joined the team of two great magazines, Ubuntu and  Paws Trails Explorers, aiming to spread the word about biodiversity conservation throughout the world.

 

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Lodz University. In this last project, I have been working with Professor Philippe J. R. Kok and the STELLAR research group aiming to understand how the paleosurfaces of Pantepui have been affecting the behaviour, bio-physics and eco-physiology of amphibians and reptiles.