Louise Alissa

I am a biologist from Brazil, currently a first-year PhD student in the Alonzo Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

I am passionate about animal behavior, evolutionary biology, and arthropods. I am a "question-driven" person and my aim is investigate broad questions with multiple approaches, as fieldwork, the genetic basis of behavior, and mathematical modeling. For my PhD, I am focusing on the interplay between sexual selection and parental care.