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I am currently a  David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Berkeley and a research affiliate at the California Academy of Sciences.  

 My research sits at the intersection of spatial ecology, global change biology, conservation, and environmental data science. I develop ecological forecasting and conservation prioritization methods, integrating biodiversity data with socio-economic variables. 

I  research how animals move across the world under increasing human threats and a changing climate and how this impacts the ecosystems they transverse. Another aspect of my research involves investigating how human activities and socio-economic practices influence where, when, where, who and why we collect biodiversity data in the age of big data. Often, I like to pursue interdisciplinary research teams trying to find  ‘glues’ to couple disparate questions, disciplines and datasets. 

My fieldwork is based in the Galapagos Archipelago, complemented by data analysis from field biologists and participatory scientists worldwide. I contribute to biodiversity policy from national to local scales, particularly on equitable conservation and the integration of socio-ecological information with web based decision support tools.

I received my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University under the supervision of Professors Walter Jetz, Martin Wikelski, Martha Muñoz, and Oswald Schmitz, where I studied biological responses of wildlife to dynamic environmental and anthropogenic drivers, primarily across North America and South America. To this end, I integrated ecological modeling, biodiversity science with remote sensing, to model wildlife space use responses to extreme weather events and COVID-19 lockdowns.