Interests and Background

I am a biologist interested in connecting the fields of community ecology, evolutionary biology and micropalaeontology to understand biodiversity dynamics. I have a theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology background and have so far mostly used planktonic foraminifera, a marine microfossil group, as a model system. I enjoy (re)discovering ways to visualise and analyse data in R and greatly support open science.

I obtained my two B.Sc. degrees from the University of São Paulo in my home country Brazil. I moved to Europe in 2012 to follow the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME), funded by the European Union. In 2019, I obtained a Ph.D. degree in Ocean and Earth Science from the University of Southampton, UK. During my Ph.D., I worked at the Natural History Museum in London, re-discovering and digitising a forgotten planktonic foraminifera collection. Since 2019, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. I am also involved in the BioDeepTime project, an integration of time series data from ecological and palaeontological sources to study community dynamics across time scales.

Besides science, I am engaged in protecting the Atlantic Forest. Together with my partner, we are trying to establish a preservation area (Reserva Particular do Patrimônio natural, RPPN) in the region of Cananéia, Brazil. In 2021, I became a mom and increasingly more committed to this project.