I am a macroecologist, interested in theoretical ecology and global changes, and I try to understand the overall patterns at regional and global scales. In the current era of data, more and more information is becoming publicly available from a diverse range of fields, and I leverage such databases to address outstanding questions.

In the Department of Environmental Sciences, my project focuses on the conservation of glacier foreland ecosystems, aiming to answer questions such as: how are patterns of plant and animal diversity arranged at the regional (landscape) scale? And how do different land-use practices affect the diversity and the ecosystem services these species provide for us?

So far, I have worked on a wide range of topics, from bromeliads to marine fisheries, and I enjoy transitioning between subjects and applying methods from one field to another. For instance, in my master’s research, I projected how the global marine fishing fleet might redistribute spatially across the oceans, given that marine species are expected to shift poleward due to increasing sea temperatures. I also worked with aquatic macroinvertebrates, and European butterflies using data from the citizen science project European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (eBMS), aiming to understand the factors that contribute to keeping their abundance stable through time and how anthropogenic changes affect them.

Besides glacier forelands, I am also working on a project to understand the global patterns of animal movement.