Macroscope Lab

Research interests

I am a quantitative macroecologist with a passion for coral reefs. I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds, specialising in evaluating the viability and resilience of coral assemblages across biogeographical gradients. Since, I have held postdoctoral positions at the University of Southern Denmark, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Oxford. Across these positions I worked on a range of projects comprising (1) developing tools to forecast spatial and temporal patterns in the aggregation of problematic jellyfish blooms, (2) evaluating how global patterns in habitat structure mediate the distribution of nature and people, and (3) quantifying the responses of population resilience to continued global change. Now as a Marie Curie Research Fellow with the Macroscope Lab at the Universidade de Lisboa, my research focuses on understanding the nuanced mechanisms underlying the relationship between diversity and stability. Specifically, I am interested in how environmental heterogeneity influences the effect of diversity on population and assemblage stability and how species coexistence shapes coral survival across disturbance events.