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 Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Bascompte Lab at the University of Zürich working on the response of species interactions to climate change. 

Previously, I was a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Baer, Wilson-Rankin, and Ponisio Labs at UC Riverside. In my PhD I was advised by  Paulo Guimarães from São Paulo University (Brazil), and also worked closely with Jason Tylianakis, and Daniel B. Stouffer from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand).

~ News ~ 
  • July 2020. I just moved to Zürich! I am excited to join the Bascompte Lab and explore a new country!
  • March 2020. I joined a group of scientists, led by Paulo Guimarães, to help model the spread of Covid-19 in Brazil using tools from complex networks (check-out our one pre-print). We are all part of the Obsevatório COVID-19 BR. 
  • February 2020. I am honored to have been awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship! Starting July 1st, I join Jordi Bascompte's group to work on the effects of climate change on species interactions. 
  • September 2019. I am the co-founder of R-Ladies Riverside. Check out our GitHub repo for some cool resources!
  • February 2019. A group of amazing scientists and I just published an e-letter in Science: "The role of sorority in building collective science". ​