About

You can think of me as half-vegetation and half-(meta)community ecologist.

I am a latina from Brazil, so we can absolutely talk in Portuguese! I’m fluent(?) in English (always trying to improve), and beginner-ish in French, which I’m still learning but happy to practice.

I got my BSc in Biology (2021) and MSc in EcoEvoBio (2024) from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), in Rio Claro, Brazil. Last year, I also worked here as research technian (2025) with data management of the Cerrado On Fire project.

My work with disturbance ecology began during my BSc, when I studied changes in beta diversity across communities under different fire regimes. Later in my BSc, I also explored the combined effects of biological invasion and fire on plant communities, which led to my first publication.

explored the combined effects of biological invasion and fire on plant communities, which led to my first publication.

Over time, my interest in vegetation ecology grew through working with the herbaceous-shrub layer of the Cerrado, which I still consider the most beautiful biome in the world. More recently, though, my questions have expanded beyond fire itself. That shift led me to pursue a PhD with a broader, more macroecological perspective, where I focus less on a single disturbance and more on the ecological mechanisms behind biodiversity patterns.

My current research focuses on how novel disturbance regimes affect different components of biodiversity across temporal, spatial, and organizational scales. Although my work is grounded in fire-driven ecosystems, I am also interested in other disturbances, such as drought and herbivory, and in how these processes shape open ecosystems and plant communities more generally.

I’m really into open science, good data practices, and all the conversations around making research more accessible, transparent, and reproducible. I could happily spend a long time talking about FAIR principles and related topics. These interests have also led me to think more broadly about the kind of academic culture we create, which is why I’ve been spending more of my recent time engaging with questions around equity and mental well-being in academia.

If you are interested in discussing or collaborating on any of these topics, feel free to get in touch.