Research Experience

Skills

Teaching: biology laboratory demonstrator.

Biodiversity Measures: compilation and data quality.

Multivariate Analysis Workshop.

Algorithm Logic and Programming (C++).

Use of Software R in Ecology.

Experience with databases.

Geoprocessing and GIS, Tools and Applications.

Research Experience

Researcher at the INCT (National Institutes of Science and Technology - Brazil) macroecology working group on Ecology, Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity (EECBio). (Mar. 2017 – Aug. 2017).

Triage and identification of great groups of the Benthic Macrofauna from the continental slope of Sergipe and south Alagoas. (Sep. 2014 – Jan. 2015). Laboratory: Coastal Ecosystem Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Grant: FAPESE (Assistance Foundation for Research and Extension from Sergipe), founded by PETROBRAS.

Reconstruction of marine fisheries catches for the Republic of Cape Verde, Marine fisheries catches in West Africa (1950 – 2010). (Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2013)

Reconstruction of catch statistics for Brazilian marine waters (1950-2010). (Feb. 2012 – Present)

Assembling biomass (or catch per unit of effort) data for marine fish species caught in five blocks off Brazilian waters. (Feb. 2012 – Jul. 2012).1

Working station: Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Grant: Scholarship from the Brazilian Science without Boarders Program, founded by CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development). (Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2013).

1 Volunteer: Assembling catch per unit of effort (CPUE) data of marine fishes caught for five blocks in the Brazilian waters as part of an international initiative. (Feb. 2012 – Jul. 2012). Collaborative work for the FishBase project (Dec. 2010 – Aug. 2015)

Analysis of reproductive patterns of marine fishes from Brazil (Set. 2011 – Jan. 2015)

Biological data meta-analysis of fish species and aquatic invertebrates from Brazil. (Dec. 2010 – Aug. 2011).

Laboratory: Fisheries Ecology Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Sergipe. Volunteer: Providing biological data of freshwater and marine fishes from Brazil for FishBase (Dec. 2010 – Aug. 2011) Grant: PIBIC (Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program).

Compiling and analyzing biological data regarding length at first maturity, spawning season, sex ratio and max length for marine fishes from Brazil. (Set. 2011 – Dec. 2011).

Additional Work Experience

COVID test processor at the University of St Andrews. I provided help to the university by processing lateral flow COVID tests for the students and staff from the university. Nov. 2021 – Jun. 2022

Teaching at the Biology Laboratory as PhD Demonstrator: University of St Andrews.

Courses taught: Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists. Cell biology. The oceans. Biology of marine organisms. Comparative physiology. Ecology. Invertebrate Zoology. Vertebrate Zoology. Research Methods in Biology. Biology1 and Biology2 (mandatory first courses that all students within biological sciences, such as microscopy, bioinformatics, essay, data analysis, skull morphology among other base courses). Oct. 2017 – May 2021

Researcher experience after Masters: Industrial and Technological Development Fellow C (Cnpq: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development scholarship): The work of the INCT (National Institutes of Science and Technology) macroecology working group on Ecology, Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity (EECBio) is based on the following lines of action: Improve the understanding of the relationship between ecological and evolutionary data and macro-scale theories; Integrate different hierarchical levels in ecology to investigate how ecological and evolutionary processes at basic levels propagate to macrecological scales; Fill the knowledge gaps on biodiversity; To extend the application of simulations and computationally intensive methods in macroecology; Investigate the geographical patterns of human influence on a macro scale on biodiversity. Mar. 2017 – Aug. 2017

Researcher: University of British Columbia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries.

Researcher: Working in the project of reconstruction of marine catches fisheries data from 1950 – 2010 for Brazil and Cape Verde, providing key information about the commercial catches along with information about discards, subsistence and recreational unreported catches. Feb. 2012 – Jan. 2013 (Science without Boarders grant)

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics): Census Agent Supervisor (skills): Mapping rural and urban census sectors for IBGE; Training and leadership of small groups of census enumerators; supervising the quality of the data collected, visiting and interviewing of sampled houses; Visiting census sectors of difficult access and other sectors with economical e social issues. Mar. 2010 – Sep. 2010 (Contract)

Recent Oral Presentations

Global rarity of bony and cartilaginous marine fishes. (Fish, Fisheries and Ecosystems in the Anthropocene, KU Leuven - Belgium. Fisheries Society of the British Isles). Jul. 2021.

Change in functional diversity of Scottish marine fish assemblages over three decades. (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland - Heriot-Watt University). Jan. 2020.

ggplot2 in R: An introduction to data visualisation (without losing the plot). (Workshop given at the University of St Andrews). Nov. 2020.

What’s the catch? Global change in the functional diversity of marine fisheries harvests over the past 65 years. (FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium - University of Western Australia). Sep. 2019.