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I am an evolutionary ecologist studying the drivers and consequences of changes in ecological species interactions over evolutionary time. My research has focused on combining host use records, phylogenetic information, network theory, computer simulations, and bayesian inference to study the evolution of butterfly-host plant interactions and butterfly diversification.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. My project is financed by the Swedish Research Council and its main goal is to predict butterfly-plant interactions in the future using phylogenetic and species distribution modelling.

Previously, I worked at the Landis lab, developing probabilistic models to help us understand the distribution of ecological interactions across millions of years. I have done a PhD in Animal Ecology at Stockholm University. Before that, I studied at Universidade Federal do Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil, the city where I spent most of my youth.

Research

My research is focused on understanding the evolution of species interactions. Butterflies and their host plants has been my main study system, but I have also worked with other organisms as well as developed methods that can be applied to a large range of biological systems.

Publications

Here you’ll find all my peer-reviewed publications and preprints.

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