Curriculum Vitae

Employment

• Postdoctoral Researcher (Mar 2019 - present)
  ICBM Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Germany
  Lead-PI: Helmut Hillebrand
  Project: Ocean Floor Excellence Cluster - Reseach Unit RECORDER

• Maternity leave (Apr 2023 - present)

• Maternity leave (Aug 2021 - Sep 2022)

Education

• Ph.D. in Ocean and Earth Science (Sep 2019), University of Southampton
  National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), University of Southampton, UK (supervisor: Thomas Ezard)
  Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum London, UK (supervisor: Giles Miller)
  MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany (supervisor: Michal Kucera)

• M.Sc. in Evolutionary Biology (Aug 2014)
  GELIFES Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands (supervisor: Rampal Etienne)
  ISEM Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, University of Montpellier II, France (supervisor: Sonia Kéfi)

• B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (Apr 2015)
  Institute of Biosciences, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (supervisor: Paulo Inácio K. L. Prado)

• B.Sc. in Molecular Sciences (Aug 2012)
  University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (supervisor: Paulo Inácio K. L. Prado)

Research Experience

• Data skills: global ocean data analysis; museum data management and digitisation; microfossil sampling and imaging; morphometrics; mark-recapture method (multistate robust design; estimation of demographic rates)
• Statistical models: linear mixed-effects; generalized dissimilarity models; community phylogenetics; null models in ecology; time-series analyses
• Mechanistic models: adaptive dynamics; birth-death and density-dependent dynamics; continuous-time stochastic model; stochastic cellular automaton model (individual-based, spatially-explicit)

Field and Laboratory Experience

• Micropalaeontology laboratory experience: seafloor sediment processing; microfossils sampling; Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera taxonomy; micropalaeontological slide mounting, digitisation and imaging (stereo-microscope); SEM imaging; morphometric image analysis

• Marine expedition FORAMFLUX, RV Meteor M-140, from Cabo Verde to the Canary Islands via the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (four weeks at sea). Experience: plankton sampling with stratified plankton net; plankton filtering and biomass measurement; plankton identification using microscopy; sediment traps; sampling Saharan dust.

• Field work in the Atlantic rainforest, Brazil: butterfly capture-mark-recapture method using entomological nets (nectarivorous species) and bait traps (frugivorous species)

Research Grants

• Financial support for BioDeepTime Paleosynthesis Workshop (M. Rillo, P. Hull and S. Finnegan, 2021-2023), Paleosynthesis Center, Erlangen, Germany
• Research Grant: Doctoral Candidates Academic Exchange at the University of Bremen (2016), DAAD Germany (EUR 10,385)
• PhD Research studentship (2015), Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton UK (GBP 102,000 tuition included)
• Master scholarship Category A (2012), MEME Programme, Erasmus Mundus EACEA European Union (EUR 36,000 tuition included)
• Exchange scholarship: Technical University of Munich (2012), Science Without Borders CNPq Brazil (EUR 5,000)
• Exchange scholarship: German Winter Course in Düsseldorf (2012), DAAD Germany (EUR 2,625)
• Research Grant: Scientific Initiation (undergraduate) (2011), FAPESP Brazil (USD 3,456)

Awards and participation support

• Participation support: ICTP Summer School (2020), FAPESP Brazil (USD 740)
• Participation support: P-SEEDS workshop (2019), University of the Ryukyus, Japan (EUR 1,065)
• Participation support: ICTP Summer School (2018), FAPESP Brazil (USD 1,275)
• Best Poster, The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference (2017)
• Travel Award: The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference (2017), TMS UK (GBP 100)
• Tuition support: the International School Foraminifera Urbino (2016), European Geological Union (EUR 500)
• Best Poster, 10th Annual Natural History Museum Student Conference (2016)
• Travel Award: The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference (2015), TMS UK (GBP 100)

Talks (conference and invited)

• Invited virtual talk, Michal Kowalewski’s lab, Florida Museum of Natural History, USA (2021)
• Invited virtual talk, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Laboratory (Head: Cristiano Chiessi), University of São Paulo, Brazil (2021)
• Invited talk, School on Community Ecology: from patterns to principles, ICTP-SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2020) Watch the talk
• Invited talk, Paleobiology as the Synthetic Ecological, Evolutionary and Diversity Science (Workshop P-SEEDS), Okinawa, Japan (2019)
• Invited Paleo-talk, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford (2019)
• FORAMS 2018, Edinburgh, UK (2018)
• The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, London, UK (2017)
• 15th International Congress of Protistology, Prague, Czech Republic (2017)
• The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, University of Liverpool, UK (2015)

Posters

• The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, Bremen, Germany (2022)
• Trait-based Approaches to Ocean Life (Fourth Workshop), Buckinghamshire, UK (2019)
• Evolution, Montpellier, France (2018) Link to poster
• Evolution, Portland, OR, USA (2017)
• The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, London, UK (2017) Link to poster
• BES Macroecology, Oxford (2017)
• 10th Annual Natural History Museum Student Conference, London, UK (2016) Link to poster

Teaching

• Co-supervisor, Ph.D. Thesis of Surya Eldo Virma Roza, University of Bremen, Germany (2020 – present)
• Supervisor, Bachelor Thesis in Biology of Adrian Schoerghofer, University of Oldenburg, Germany (2021)
• Teaching assistant, Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2020, 2018 & 2013)
• Teaching assistant, Empirical Dynamic Modeling mini-course, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018)
• Supervisor, Community Ecology Research course, University of Groningen, Netherlands (2018)
• Teaching assistant, Vertebrate Palaeobiology: Phylogenetics and Evolution (SOES 3049), University of Southampton, UK (2016)

Outreach

• Podcast episode of Specimen Stories by Klara Norden - Episode 3: Foraminifera - tiny time machines of the ocean with Marina Rillo (28 Aug 2021)
• Volunteer scientist at Observatório COVID-19 BR (2020-2021)
• Virtual lecture about science and the pandemic for eighth grade students of Escola Móbile, São Paulo (16 Jun 2020)
• Portuguese translation of scientific short stories for children, Once Upon a Time project, University of Bremen (2019 - 2020)
• Nature Live show on “Planktonic Pioneers”, Natural History Museum, London, UK (19 Oct 2018)(related blog post)
• European Researchers’ Night: Oceans, Science Uncovered at the Natural History Museum, London, UK (29 Sep 2017)
• European Researchers’ Night, Science Uncovered at the Natural History Museum, London, UK (16 Sep 2015)

Complementary Courses and Workshops

• HIFMB 2nd Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, Germany (2019)
• School on Physics Applications in Biology, ICTP-SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018)
• The International School on Foraminifera, Urbino, Italy (2016)
• Comparative Approaches in Ecology and Evolution (IDEM 186), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (2016)
• Taxonomy & Biostratigraphy of Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera, Natural History Museum, London, UK (2015)
• Computational Methods in Macroevolutionary Analysis, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2014)
• Ecological Consequences of Climate Change, CSIC Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain (2013)

Programming skills

• R programming language
• C programming language
• LaTeX

Languages

• Portuguese Fluent (native)
• English Fluent
• Dutch Intermediate
• German Basic