My main research focus is on the evolution of asexuality in nature, how parthenogenetic species originate and the evolutionary forces behind the maintenance of sex. During my PhD I studied the origin of hybrid asexuality in vertebrates in a phylogenomics framework, taking into account how gene flow was related with parthenogenetic hybrids. Recently, I am focused on the forces that maintain sex in nature, testing the parasites hypothesis for sex (or the Red Queen) to analyse if the genomes of sexual species evolve faster when in comparison to asex ones.
2017 - ongoing:
Postdoc
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Advisor: Prof. Tanja Schwander
2012-2017:
PhD student
Sheffield University, UK
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2009-2011:
Master student
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2002-2008:
Diploma studies in Biology
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
