Brief CV

2022 – Present Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

2019 – 2021 Assistant Professor (Prof. Ayudante Doctora). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

2019 Assistant Researcher (Investigadora Auxiliar). Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental

Changes (cE3c). Faculdade de Cieências, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).

2016 – 2019 Juan de la Cierva (Incorporación) Research Fellow. Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain).

2014 – 2016 Marie Curie Research Fellow. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC, Madrid, Spain).

2012 – 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher. Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) &

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

2011 – 2012 Postdoctoral Researcher. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ. Federal de Goiás (Goiânia, Brazil).

2010 PhD (Biology). Imperial College London (London, UK).

2003 – 2005 Research assistant in the INTERFRUTA project (Azores), Departamento de Ciências Agrárias,

Universidade dos Açores (Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal).

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

PROJECTS (Principal Investigator)

EDUCATION

2022-2025. DUNGPOOL - Effects of species pool and community assembly processes on dung beetle diversity and ecosystem functions in a warming world. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Funding Agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain). 176.660€

2018-2019. Impacts and mitigation of climate change on the ecosystem services provided by dung beetles in mountain pasturelands. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). Funding Agency: Fundación Biodiversidad (Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico; Spain). 62.383,64€

2017-2018. Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of vertebrate communities in protected areas

Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). Funding Agency: Universidad de Alcalá. 5.000€

2016. The effect of cattle management on the diversity and ecosystem services provided by dung beetles. Center of application: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain).

Funding Agency: Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre. 3.000€

2014 - 2016. Spatial variation in community structure: species, functional and phylogenetic diversity at different scales [FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF: COMMSTRUCT]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain). Funding Agency: EU - Marie Curie Individual Fellowships Actions (7th European Community Framework Programme). 19.200€

2005. Synthesys Grant. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain). Funding Agency: EU.

2006-2010. PhD in Biology. Imperial College London, UK.

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

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Since 2022. Guest co-editor for Journal Biogeography. Special issue “Functional Island Biogeography“, to be published in 2023.

Since 2020. Associate Editor for Journal of Animal Ecology.

Since 2020. Reviewer of grant proposals for the British Ecological Society.

Since 2016. Associate Editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography.

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

2014-2016. Guest co-editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography. Special issue “New Directions in Island Biogeography“ published in 2016.

2013-2015. Member of the board of Officers of the International Biogeographic Society (Student-at-large ex officio) and appointed member of the Early Career Biogeographers Committee.

2011-2013 – Member of the Board of Directors (Student-at-larger) of the International Biogeographic Society; head of the Early Career Biogeographers Committee; member Advertising and Outreach Committee.