Stéphanie Vaz joins the team for a 6-month secondment

Posted by Joaquín Hortal | Sep 9, 2022 | English, News, Português | 0 |

Stéphanie Vaz, a PhD student from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, is joining us for a 6 month sanduíche stay at MNCN. Stéphanie works with fireflies, and her PhD work deals with developing a large-scale conservation assessment of this group of beetles in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, mobilising data from collections. She is supervised by Paulo Paiva, Maria Lúcia Lorini and Alejandra Zarzo Arias. Here she will develop an open access database for Neotropical firefly occurrences, an assessments of the limitations and biases in such database to describe the distribution of Atlantic Forest fireflies, and in modelling species distributions and projecting them to different climate change scenarios.

You can follow Stéphanie at twitter, facebook, instagram, and her ORCID.

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Joaquín Hortal

I am a biogeographer with broad interests in macroecology, community ecology, island biogeography, insect ecology, evolution, and biodiversity research. My main research aim is to determine why biodiversity – and in particular community structure – is geographically distributed the way it is, and to identify the processes that domain the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological assemblages. I work as Scientific Researcher at the Department of Biogeography and Global Change of the Natural History Museum in Madrid (MNCN), a research institute of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC). I am also External Professor at the Departamento de Ecologia of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in Brazil, and Associate Researcher of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.