A central goal in ecology is to unravel the patterns behind the organization of natural communities and I am particularly interested in how these patterns are related to communities’ robustness to global change. While species are the building blocks of ecological communities, the way in which these species interact is the glue that binds them together. My work integrates empirical and modelling approaches to relate communities' structural and functional properties to the robustness of these systems to different extinction drivers. I am primarily a theoretical ecologist with expertise in network theory and I a strong background in tropical field biology, particularly in terrestrial systems and in plant-pollinator interactions. 

 I am currently a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Baer and Ponisio Labs at UC Riverside. 

I also work closely with Paulo Guimarães from São Paulo University (Brazil), Jason Tylianakis, and Daniel B. Stouffer from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).

~ News ~ 
  • A group of amazing scientists and I just published an e-letter in Science: "The role of sorority in building collective science".