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Evolutionary, Behavioral, and Quantitative Ecology
About me
Welcome to my website!
As a researcher, I am interested in understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes that influence critical behavioral and life-history adaptations.
I am motivated to produce research that not only improves our general understanding of nature, but also helps us predict how wild populations will respond to their rapidly changing environments.
My work combines behavioral ecology, quantitative genetics, and population dynamics analyses, and is generally applied to long-term individual-based data from wild populations.
Main Research Projects
Main Research Projects
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of partial migration
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of partial migration
I currently work as a Researcher at NTNU (Norway) with Prof. Jane Reid, on her ERC-funded project on spatio-seasonal eco-evolutionary dynamics.
We study a partially migratory population of European shags (Gulosus aristotelis) that is highly vulnerable to recurrent severe winter storms.
Using quantitative genetic and multi-state capture-mark-recapture Bayesian methods, my work has helped us understand early-life eco-evolutionary dynamics, particularly the genetic basis of early-life migration and survival effects of early-life plasticity in migration. I am now studying pair formation and reproductive success given adult winter locations.
The benefits of sociality in a harsh environment
The benefits of sociality in a harsh environment
I earned my PhD in 2022 at the University of Porto, and developed my PhD project between Portugal (CIBIO), France (CEFE-CNRS) and South Africa (Field work station), studying colonial and cooperatively breeding sociable weaver birds (Philetairus socius).
These southern-African endemic passerines inhabit an increasingly warm and dry savanna environmnent, and my behavioral experiments and long-term data analyses investigated the social and ecological drivers of reproductive investment and early-life survival in this species.
Photo by Matthieu Paquet
If you are curious about my work, or would like to collaborate, please contact me at:
If you are curious about my work, or would like to collaborate, please contact me at:
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