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After recently completing her PhD on the taxonomic and spatial uncertainty of biodiversity information, Thainá Lessa will carrying out a short post-doctorate at MNCN thanks to a Brazil-Spain partnership. During her seven-month work in Madrid, Thainá will develop...
Karoline Azevedo, a PhD student at the Federal University of Alagoas, is joining our group at MNCN for six months. During her master's degree, Karoline investigated both sampling effort biases and macroecological patterns of marine annelids in the Southwest Atlantic....
Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza (a.k.a. Pirilo), a PhD student from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Cuiabá, Brazil) has joined the group for a three-month exchange, until June 2024, during the last year of his doctoral studies. Pirilo began his scientific career...
Mónica Gómez Vadillo has just started working with us, thanks to a 4-yr PhD grant from Spanish AEI, associated to project NICED. Mónica will be supervised by Joaquín Hortal and Emilio García Roselló from Vigo University. After more than two years of experience as a...
En una larga entrevista para el pódcast "Hablando con Científicos" repasamos el trabajo publicado recientemente sobre cómo la diversidad de coleópteros coprófagos mejora el funcionamiento de los escosistemas (Noriega et al. Nature Communications 2023). Además de...
Max Willian Tavares de Almeida had his viva yesterday, 20th December. After a nice 5-hour defence by teleconference, he obtained his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Max's thesis describes the shortfalls in the knowledge on the...