Biography

I’m a field ecologist with research interests in vegetation ecology, historical ecology and biological invasions.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil. My research is dedicated to understanding environmental resilience and biodiversity conservation. I currently hold a research fellowship with INCT ClimaVeg (National Institute of Science and Technology on Climate Change Impacts on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning).In this role, I contribute to a collaborative scientific network coordinated by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) with ties to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The institute’s core mission is to evaluate how climate change impacts the functioning of vital open biomes like grasslands and the Cerrado. Our goals involve Ecosystem Resilience: Analyzing how vegetation adapts to extreme weather events and heatwaves; Fire Management: Investigating fire dynamics to develop strategies that reduce destructive wildfires and preserve savanna and grassland ecosystems; and Biodiversity Conservation: Exploring how diverse vegetation types maintain essential ecosystem services.

I am also a collaborator at the laboratories of Human Ecology and Ethnobotany (ECOHE), Laboratory of Diversity and Conservation (divEcon) and Lab on Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation (LEIMAC) at UFSC.