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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 the California Academy of Sciences.

I work at the intersection of spatial ecology, global change biology, conservation and environmental justice. 

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 while the rest of my work is based on data crunching – analyzing data collected by field biologists and participatory scientists from all over the world.