January 2024: NEW ARTICLE! "Niche and neutral-based processes differ in importance for common and rare species in a metacommunity of anurans in subtropical grasslands" is now published in Hydrobiologia - The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences!

May, 2023: New preprint available: "Body condition and background noise alter female responses to uni- and multimodal signals emitted by a male mimicking robot frog"!

April, 2023: New blog post "Robot frog helps to understand the function of a multimodal signal used by males in territorial contests" on the Journal of Animal Ecology’s blog (em português, aqui)!

March 2023: I have been shortlisted for the Journal of Animal Ecology’s Elton Prize early career researcher award for the article "Function of a multimodal signal: A multiple hypothesis test using a robot frog"!

April 2022: The article "Function of a multimodal signal: A multiple hypothesis test using a robot frog" is featured in the April issue of Journal of Animal Ecology in a very cool ‘Research Highlight’ written by Dr. Beatriz Willink!

October 2021: NEW ARTICLE! "Function of a multimodal signal: A multiple hypothesis test using a robot frog" is now published in the Journal of Animal Ecology!

November 2019: I had the privilege of giving a talk titled "Sexy and tough? Male and female responses to unimodal and multimodal signals of a robot frog" at the Centre for Biological Diversity Friday lab chats! 

October 2019: I arrived in Scotland to spend some time here as an academic visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews. I'm grateful to Dr. Nathan Bailey for receiving me! 

April 2019: I went to Córdoba, Argentina, to meet Dr. Eileen Hebets and discuss the results of my postdoc research. I also had the opportunity to give a talk at the Laboratorio de Biología Reproductiva y Evolución at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba! Thank you guys for the warm reception!

April 2019: NEW ARTICLE! "Reproductive Cycle, Size and Age at Sexual Maturity, and Sexual Dimorphism in the Stream-breeding Frog Crossodactylus schmidti (Hylodidae)" is now published in the South American Journal of Herpetology!

June 2018: I was selected to receive a Travel Award to attend the 55th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee!

June 2017: I was selected to receive a Travel Award to attend the 54th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society held at the University of Toronto, Canada!

October 2016: NEW ARTICLE! "Hematophagous flies attracted to frog calls in a preserved seasonal forest of the austral Neotropics, with a description of a new species of Corethrella (Diptera: Corethrellidae)" is now published in Zoological Science!

June 2016: NEW ARTICLE! "Calling activity of a stream-breeding frog from the austral neotropics: Temporal patterns of activity and the role of environmental factors" is now published in Herpetologica!

May 2016: NEW ARTICLE! "Communication in a noisy environment: short-term acoustic adjustments and the underlying acoustic niche of a Neotropical stream-breeding frog" is now published in Acta Ethologica!

February 2016: I am excited to share that I have started a postdoctoral position at the Department of Ecology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Over the next couple of years, I will be working on multimodal communication and sexual selection in stream-dwelling frogs at Dr. Glauco Machado's lab!