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
Supervisors: Prof Elisabeth S. Bakker, Prof Ellen van Donk, Dr Casper H. A. van Leeuwen
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
Supervisor: Prof Francisco de Assis Esteves
August 2008 - March 2013
B.SC. BIOLOGY
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 2024 - November 2025
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Critical light and nutrient conditions for shifts between charophytes and angiosperms: Implications for charophyte recovery in oligo-mesotrophic lakes
Advisor: PD Dr Sabine Hilt
September 2021 - March 2024
YOUNG RESEARCH FELLOW
Brazilian Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BPBES), Brazil
Author of the Chapter 3 – Indirect and direct drivers affecting the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species in the Brazilian Thematic Report on Invasive Alien Species
October 2019 - December 2023
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Centre for Biological Control (CBC), Rhodes University, Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa
Achieving the goal “more natives, less invasives”: Priority effects as a potential tool for restoration
Advisor: Prof Julie A. Coetzee
September - October 2022
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Zoology 102, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
March 2015
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Monitoramento Limnológico do Igarapé Água Fria - Porto Trombetas (Amazonia), Pará, Brazil (Biomonitoring of Amazonian streams)
Monitoring of biotic communities (e.g., phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, etc..) and limnological variables | Limnos Consultoria Ambiental LTDA
2013 - 2014
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Estudos limnológicos na FLONA de Carajás (Amazonia), Pará, Brazil (Biomonitoring of Amazonian lagoons)
Survey and identification of aquatic macrophyte species, monitoring of biotic communities (e.g., phytoplankton, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, etc..) and limnological variables | Limnos Consultoria Ambiental LTDA