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June 2015 - June 2019

PH.D. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY

Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)/Utrecht University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Thesis title: Biotic resistance to alien plant invasions in tropical and temperate freshwater ecosystems

March 2013 - March 2015

M.SC. ECOLOGY

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Thesis title: Influence of herbivore damage on methane emission from emergent aquatic macrophytes

August 2008 - March 2013

B.SC. BIOLOGY

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CV: CV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

October 2019 - present

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

Centre for Biological Control (CBC), Rhodes University, Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa

March 2013

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Monitoramento Limnológico do Igarapé Água Fria - Porto Trombetas (Amazonia), Pará, Brazil (Biomonitoring of Amazonian streams)

2013 - 2014

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Estudos limnológicos na FLONA de Carajás (Amazonia), Pará, Brazil (Biomonitoring of Amazonian lagoons. Survey and identification of aquatic macrophyte species)

CV: CV

SKILLS

LABORATORY

Aquatic macrophyte culturing | Invertebrate culturing (e.g. snails, insects)

FIELD

Aquatic macrophyte identification | Limnological monitoring (water quality parameters, phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, sediment) | Mesocosm setup and monitoring | Plan and coordination of field surveys | Greenhouse gas sampling and analysis | PADI Open Water Diver certified | Experienced hiker

STATISTICS

Highly proficient in the statistical analysis software R
Design of experiments | Meta-analysis techniques | Mixed effects models (GLM, GLMM) | Multivariate analysis | Zero inflated models | Structural equation modeling

LANGUAGES

Portuguese | Native
English | Fluent
Spanish | Intermediate
Italian | Basic

CV: CV

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

British Ecological Society (since 2022)

CV: CV
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