My background

I'm a biologist interested in applying genomic tools for biodiversity conservation. I hold a PhD in Genetics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where I investigated the
phylogeography and hybridization between sea turtles species. Since then, I have widened my expertise by working on population and conservation genomics of endangered species (sloths, aquatic warblers, Asian elephants, softshell turtles, howler monkeys), developing new methods for reduced representation genomic data analysis, and learning new genomic methods (WGS and reference genome). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW).