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Current appointments:
Young Investigator Group Leader (CASUS-HZDR, Germany)
I am broadly interested in understanding and quantifying how individuals individual behaviors within their local environment scale to higher levels of ecological organization and shape population, community, and ecosystem-level processes. Among those, I am particularly interested in emergent spatiotemporal patterns and how these drive ecological and evolutionary outcomes, including population abundances, species distributions, and ecosystem resilience.
I am a group leader at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding within the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (CASUS-HZDR), where I lead the Dynamics of Complex Living Systems Young Investigator Group. Between 2019 and 2022, the group was hosted by the ICTP-South American Institute for Fundamental Research (São Paulo, Brazil).
Previously, I was a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Corina Tarnita at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, and I obtained my PhD in Physics at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).
You can contact me at r.martinez-garcia-at-hzdr.de
Appointments
2022 - Young Investigator Group Leader, CASUS-HZDR.
2022 - Affiliated Faculty. Princeton - CUNY Center for the Physics of Biological Function. Princeton University (USA).
2019 - 2022 Simons-FAPESP Assistant Professor, Biological Physics, ICTP-SAIFR and São Paulo State University (UNESP).
2019 - 2022 Simons Associate. Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Phyiscs (ICTP). Trieste, Italy.
2016 - 2019 Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
2014 - 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher Associate. Dept. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.
Education
2014 Ph.D. in Physics. University Balearic Islands & Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Spain.
2011 M.Sc. in Physics. University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
2010 Bachelor in Physics. University of La Laguna, Spain.
Selected Honors & Awards
2023 Junior Scientific Award of the Complex Systems Society
2021 Young Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
2016 Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
2014 Montserrat Casas award in the category of Sciences, Engineering and Architecture. Best PhD research in the Balearic Islands.
2013 Banco Santander award to best PhD students in the University of Balearic Islands.
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