Contact & CV

Isa Donoso, PhD | Ikerbasque Research Fellow at BC3

BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change - Klima Aldaketa Ikergai
Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country -
Sede Building 1, 1st floor - Barrio Sarriena s/n 48940 Leioa (Spain)

Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain

e-mail: isa.donoso@bc3research.org
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Research stays in foreign laboratories

• 2024 - Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Univeristy Collage of London (CBER-UCL) (UK). Working with Dr. Alex Pigot

• 2022 - Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) Galápagos (Ecuador). Working with Dr. Heinke Jäger

• 2015 - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Cliamte Reseach Center (SBiK-F) (Germany). Working with Dr. Matthias Schleuning & Dr. Jochen Fründ

• 2014 - University of Canterbury, School of Biological Sciences (New Zealand). Working with Prof. Jason Tylianakis & Prof. Daniel Stouffer

Supervision and mentoring

• 2025-ongoing - MSc thesis: Iñaki Folio: "Impacts of Forest Restoration in the Basque Country" University of Basque Country (Spain). Co-supervisor: Phil Martin (BC3) 

• 2024-2025 -  MSc thesis: Paula Feldmann: "The forest within the forest: restoration of Galapagos plant-ephiphyte networks" - University of Coimbra (Portugal). Co-supervisor: Ruben Heleno (University of Coimbra)

• 2024-2025 - MSc thesis: Joandry Cabrera . “Effect of insularity on Seed dispersal networks” - University of Basque Country (Spain). Co-supervisor: Miguel Lurgi (Swansea University, UK).

• 2022-2023 - Host and supervisor of Larissa Nowak at IMEDEA (CSIC -UIB) (Spain) "Impacts of species introductions on the trait diversity of interacting avian frugivores and fleshy-fruited plants"

• 2021 - One chapter of PhD Thesis Larissa Nowak "Impacts of climate change on interacting plant and bird species – A trait-based perspective" [SBiK-F best PhD award]  - Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany)

• 2017 - BSc thesis: Angie Milena Higuera Blanco: "Dispersión de semillas por aves en bosque Altoandino en el Parque Natural Municipal el Sinaí (Pachavita, Boyacá)" [cum laude] - UPTC , Tunja (Colombia)

• Mentoring: organized mentoring activities for early-career researchers at XV AEET 2021 conference

Active memberships

• Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET)

• Iberian Ecological Soceity (SIBECOL)

• Bristish Ecological Society (BES)

• Alexander von Humboldt alumni (German and Spanish Societies) 

• Marie Curie Alumni Association 

• Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas (FIRE)

• Fundación Lurgaia Fundazioa (Forest Restoration)

Organization of international conferences and other academic services

• 2025 - Scientific committee and Thematic session convener: "What works in forest management and restoration" at the SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting, Pontevedra, Spain. 

• 2022 - Secretary of selecion commitee for SOIB Recerca i Innovació contracts

• 2021 - Organizing and scientific committee memeber: ECONET, V Symposium on Ecological Networks (UIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) -  Also chairat the session "Empirical Studies - non anthropogenic impacts"

• 2020 - Main symosoium convener: "How a network approach advances our understanding on seed dispersal interactions in a changing world" at the 7th International Symposium on Frugivory and Seed dispersal (Uttarakhand, India)

• 2016 - Symposium convener: "Birds and Ecosystem Functions: the ecological role of birds" at the V Colombian Ornithology Congress (Medellin, Colombia)

• Editorial experience:

  • Oikos journal (since 2025)

  • Invited Guest Editor : Special Issue in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. “Animal seed dispersal: and ecosystem service in crisis”

• Journal peer-reviewer: AoB Plants, Biotropica, Conservation Letters, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecology and Evolution, Functional Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Oikos Scientific Reports..., among others.

• Expert reviewer – Evaluation Panels:

  • AEET Call for Research Project Grants in Ecology (2024) 

  • Jury member: Photography contest on “Biological Diversity in the Balearic Islands” (2022)

  • National Geographic Society (NGS) projects (2022)