Academic degrees

2006 - 2010 PhD in Ecology and Biogeography - Imperial College London (Ascot, UK).

Thesis title: "Ecology and biogeography of island parasitoid faunas"

1998 - 2003 BSc. in Biology - Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)

Thesis title: "Biodiversity and conservation of Hymenoptera (Insecta), specially gall makers (Cynipidae), in some

portuguese natural areas"

Research Positions/Activities

2016 - Present Postdoctoral Researcher (Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Fellowship) at Dpto. Ciencias de la Vida (U.D. Ecología),

Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)

2014 - Present Coordinator of the Island Biogeography Interest Group (IBIG) of the Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre

and Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia

2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie Curie Fellowship) at Dpt. Biogeography & Global Change, Museo Nacional de

Ciencias Naturales - CSIC (Madrid, Spain)

2013 - Present Appointed member of the Special Committee on IPBES of the International Biogeographic Society

2013 - 2015 Member of the board of Officers of the International Biogeographic Society (Past Student-at-large ex officio;

appointed member of the Early Career Biogeographers Committee)

2012 - 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher at Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Univ. Lisboa (Lisbon,

Portugal) & Dpt. Biogeography & Global Change, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales - CSIC (Madrid, Spain)

2011 - 2012 Member of the board of Officers of the International Biogeographic Society (Student-at-large)

2010 - Present Associate researcher at the Azorean Biodiversity Group (Ce3C - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental

Changes), University of the Azores (Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal)

2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher at Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia, Brazil)

2010 - 2011 Visiting Researcher at Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás (Goiânia, Brazil)

(5 months)

2006 - 2010 PhD student at Imperial College London (Ascot, U.K.)

2005 Visiting researcher under the Synthesys scheme (European Union - FPVI) at Museo Nacional de Ciencias

(3 months) Naturales (Madrid, Spain). Project title: Biodiversity of Macaronesian Parasitic Hymenoptera.

2003 - 2005 Research assistant in the INTERFRUTA project, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores

(Azores, Portugal). Research Area: pests and natural enemies’ ecology (entomology)

2002 - 2003 Research requirement for completion of the BSc.

2002 Professional training in the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Lisbon, Portugal).

(2 months) Research Area: Subterranean Termites Ecology

Grants and Awards

2016 - 2018 Juan de la Cierva (Incorporación) Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2015 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (Portugal) postdoctoral grant (declined)

2014 - 2016 Marie Curie Intra-european fellowship (Project: COMMSTRUCT)

2013 Juan de La Cierva postodctoral grant (declined)

2012 Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD) grant that covered travel expenses to attend the Sixth

Biennial Meeting of the International Biogeography Society (Miami, USA)

2012 - 2014 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (Portugal) postdoctoral grant.

2011 - 2012 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (Brazil) postdoctoral grant.

2010 International Biogeography Society grant that covered the registration fee to attend the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the

International Biogeography Society (Greece)

2010 Royal Entomological Society grant that covered travel expenses to attend the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the

International Biogeography Society (Greece)

2010 Visiting researcher grant at Departamento de Ciências Agrárias of Universidade dos Açores (Portugal)

2009 Best student poster presentation. Fourth Biennial Meeting of the International Biogeography Society, Mérida (Mexico)

2009 International Biogeography Society grant that covered travel expenses to attend the Fourth Biennial Meeting of the

International Biogeography Society (Mexico)

2009 Royal Entomological Society grant that covered travel expenses to attend the Fourth Biennial Meeting of the

International Biogeography Society (Mexico)

2008 Royal Entomological Society grant that covered travel expenses to attend the XXIII International Congress of

Entomology (South Africa)

2007 Royal Entomological Society grant that covered travel expenses to the European Workshop on Insect Parasitoids

(Sicily, Italy)

2006 - 2009 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) PhD grant

2005 Visiting researcher grant under the Synthesys scheme. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain)

2003 - 2005 Research assistant grant at the Universidade dos Açores (Portugal) (INTERREG IIIB; project INTEFRUTA

(MAC/3.1/A1))

2003 PRODEP fellowship for undergraduate students.

Research Projects

11. Project title: Determinantes da diversidade beta em sistemas tritróficos formados por plantas, insetos herbívoros e parasitoides [Determinants of beta diversity in tritrophic systems formed by plants, insect herbivors and parasitoids)

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

Funding Agency: CNPq (Brazil)

Duration: 2017 - 2019 (2 years)

Position: Team member

10.Project title: Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of vertebrate communities in protected areas

Universidad de Alcalá, Alcaá de Henares, Spain.

Funding Agency: Universidad de Alcalá (Convocatória de ayudas para la realización de proyectos para potenciar la creación y consolidación de grupos de investigación)

Duration: 2016 - 2017 (1 year)

Position: Principal Investigator

9. Efecto del manejo ganadero en la diversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos proporcionados por los escarabajos coprófagos [The effect of cattle management on the diversity and ecosystem services provided by dung beetles]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

Funding Agency: Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre. Ayuda a proyectos de investigación liderados por jóvenes investigadores - Modalidad “Consolidando la investigación”. Budget: 3.000 €

Duration: 2016 (1 year)

Position: Principal Investigator

8.Spatial variation in community structure: species, functional and phylogenetic diversity at different scales [FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF: COMMSTRUCT - 331623]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

Funding Agency: Marie Curie Individual Fellowships Actions (7th European Community Framework Programme). Budget: 19.200 €

Duration: 2014 to 2016 (2 years).

Position: Co-Principal Investigator

7.COMDUNES – Do inland sand dune communities follow strict ecological sucession? [EXPL/BIA-BIC/2311/2013]

Centro de Biologia Ambiental - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Funding Agency: Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Budget: 49.364 €

Duration: 2014 to 2015 (1.5 years).

Position: Team member

6.Developing tools to unify range dynamics and community-level processes into a single analytical framework [2011BR0071]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain; Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil.

Funding Agency: CSIC (Spain) & CNPq (Brazil). Budget: 21.020 € (45000 R$)

Duration: 2013 and 2014 (2 years).

Position: Team member

5.SCARPO - Desentrañando los determinantes geograficos y evolutivos de la la diversidad de coleopteros coprofagos del Paleártico Occidental [Disentangling the geographic and evolutionary determinants of the diversity of Western Palaeartic dung beetles] [CGL2011-29317/BOS]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

Funding Agency: DGIGPNI+D+i, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain). Budget: 192.390 €

Duration: 2012 to 2014 (3 years).

Position: Team member

4.Biodiversidade em ilhas oceanicas: um modelo unificado [Biodiversity on oceanic islands: towards a unified theory] [FCT- PTDC/BIA-BIC/ 119255/2010].

Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A – Univ. Açores), Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal.

Funding Agency: Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Budget: 99.000 €

Duration: 2012 to 2014 (3 years).

Position: Team member

3.Previsão de extinções em Ilhas: uma avaliação em várias escalas [Predicting extinctions on islands: a multi-scale assessment] [FCT- PTDC/BIA-BEC/100182/2008]

Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A – Univ. Açores), Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal.

Funding Agency: Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Budget: 194.907 €

Duration: 2010 to 2013 (3 years).

Position: Collaborator

2.Conflito entre actividades humanas e a conservação de endemismos insulares numa área de elevada biodiversidade à escala Mundial [Conflict between human activities and the conservation of island endemics in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot] [PTDC/BIA-BEC/099138/2008].

Centro de Biologia Ambiental (CBA/FC/UL), Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Funding Agency: Portuguese Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Budget: 198.309 €

Duration: 2010 to 2012 (3 years).

Position: Team member

1.Promoção da fruticultura e da viticultura na perspectiva da protecção e produção integrada nos arquipélagos da Macaronésia [MAC/3.1/A1]

Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal.

Funding Agency: EU INTERREG III B (PROID 15). Duration: 2003 to 2005 (2 years).

Position: Research Assistant

Teaching experience

Undergraduate courses

2017 Ecology (Practical classes), Environmental Sciences BSc

2017 Natural resources management and conservation (Practical classes), Environmental Sciences BSc

2016 Applied Ecology and global change (theoretical classes), Biology BSc

2006 Practical classes for the Undergraduate Biology stream, Imperial College London (UK).

Postgraduate courses

2016, 2017 Lecturer and Coordinator of the “Avances y Métodos Cuantitativos en Biogeografía y Ecología III: Diversidade

Filogenética y Funcional” [Advances and Quantitative Methods in Biogeography and Ecology III: Phylogenetic and

Functional Diversity] advanced course of the Doctoral Programs in “Ecología, Conservación y Restauración de

Ecosistemas” [Ecology, Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration]. University of Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares

(Spain). 24 hours.

2016 Lecturer and Coordinator of the “Avances y Métodos Cuantitativos en Biogeografía y Ecología II: Biogeografía de Islas”

[Advances and Quantitative Methods in Biogeography and Ecology II: Island Biogeography] advanced course of the

Doctoral Programs in “Ecología, Conservación y Restauración de Ecosistemas” [Ecology, Conservation and Ecosystem

Restoration]. University of Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). 24 hours.

2012, 2013, Lecturer for the “Island Biogeography” advanced course of the Doctoral Programmes in Biology

2015, 2016 (University of Lisbon), Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (University of Lisbon and University of Porto) and

Biology and Ecology of Global Changes.

Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

(Portugal). 36 hours.

2011, 2013 Lecturer for the “Island Biogeography” module of the Postgraduate Program in Ecology and Evolution

(MSc and PhD students).

Universidade Federal de Goiás (Brazil). 30 hours.

2007 Tutorial classes for the “New techniques in Conservation sciences” module of the MSc in Conservation Sciences.

Imperial College London (UK). 3 hours.

2007 Practical classes for the “Working Overseas” module of the MSc in Conservation Sciences.

Imperial College London (UK). 3 hours.

2007 Practical classes for the “Biodiversity field course” module of the MSc in “Advanced methods in Taxonomy and

Biodiversity”.

Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum (UK). 12 hours.

2007 Practical classes for the “Selfish Genetic Elements” module of the MSc in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation.

Imperial College London (UK). 6 hours.

Students supervision

2017 - Present Sónia Llorente (MSc candidate); Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Spain). Provisional thesis title:

“Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of vertebrate communities in protected areas"

2014 – Present Jorge Ari Noriega Alvarado (PhD candidate); Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) (Madrid, Spain).

Provisional thesis title: “Perturbaciones humanas, estructura funcional y servicios ecosistémicos de escarabajos

coprófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae)” [Human impacts, functional structure and ecosystem services provided

by scarab dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)]. Co-supervisor: Dr. Joaquín Hortal, MNCN (CSIC), Spain.

2015 – 2016 Juan Carlos Pedriza (MSc); Universidade Autnoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Thesis title:

“Do parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) follow the same distribution patterns as their hosts

(Lepidoptera)?” Co-supervisor: Dr. Enrique Garca Barros (Universidade Autónoma de Madrid). Grade: 9.5 / 10

.

2016 Claudia Poyo Alonso (undergraduate student); Universidade Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain).

Participated in the project “Efecto del manejo ganadero en la diversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos

proporcionados por los escarabajos coprófagos [The effect of cattle management on the diversity and ecosystem.

Editorial activities

Jan 2016 – present Associate Editor of Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Jan 2015 – present Review Editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Board of Biogeography and Macroecology).

Jan 2015 – present Associate Editor of Biogeographia.

May 2014 - July 2016 Guest Editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography (special issue on island biogeography).

Sep 2013 - Feb 2014 Guest Editor for the Thesis Abstracts section of Frontiers of Biogeography.

July 2010 - present Subject editor on global ecology and biogeography for the Iranian Journal of Entomology.

Reviewer for: Acta Oecologica, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, Animal Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation,

Conservation , BMC Ecology, Conservation Letters, Ecography, Ecology & Evolution, European Journal of

Entomology, Frontiers of Biogeography, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Heredity, Insect Conservation and

Diversity, International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of

Mammalogy, Molecular Ecology Resources, Natureza & Conservação and Oecologia Australis.