I am interested in the effects of spatial structure on ecological and evolutionary processes.
During my masters, I analysed a model of species distribution in artificially fragmented landscapes to determine how different spatial configurations of the same habitat area affect species abundance. More broadly, my work helped to contrast the performance of statistical models when input data is not factorially designed.
For my PhD, I will initially analyse evolutionary models using mathematical and computational techniques to investigate the effects of population structure on the segregation of social and competitive alleles. It will help to understand the pace and underlying genetic signatures of adaptation in non-randomly mixing populations.
2021 - present
PhD in Charles Mullon's group, University of Lausanne.
2020
Research stay, Institute for Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex systems (IFISC/CSIC/UiB), Spain.
2019 - 2021
MSc Theoretical Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT/Unesp), Brazil.
Dissertation title: Population dynamics in highly fragmented landscapes.
2012 - 2016
BSc Physics (hons.), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Dissertation title: Studying bidimensional turbulence with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
Under construction