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Lívia Frateles joins the lab

Lívia Frateles joins the lab

Lívia Frateles is a PhD student at the Federal University of Goiás who has recently joined our group at MNCN for a six-month term. Her research has focused on knowledge shortfalls since her master’s degree, where she aimed to understand how taxonomic uncertainty can...

Sidney Gouveia and Luiz Lima visit us at MNCN

Sidney Gouveia and Luiz Lima visit us at MNCN

Sidney Gouveia and his MSc student Luis Lima, from the Universidade Federal de Sergipe, will be visiting our lab at MNCN and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid during this month, thanks to the project IA-VENOM (Prevendo a ocorrência de acidentes com escorpiões...

Thainá Lessa starts her postdoc

Thainá Lessa starts her postdoc

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 comes to MNCN for a secondment

Karoline Azevedo comes to MNCN for a secondment

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 Castro-Souza visits us for three months

Rodrigo Castro-Souza visits us for three months

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 starts her PhD

Mónica Gómez Vadillo starts her PhD

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...

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