Experience

 
 
 
 
 
May 2022 – Present
Barcelona, Spain

Postdoctoral Researcher

FEHM-Lab, Universitat de Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Data analyses
  • Preparing scientific publications
 
 
 
 
 
July 2019 – February 2022
Évora, Portugal

Postdoctoral Researcher

The “Rui Nabeiro” Biodiversity Chair, Universidade de Évora

Responsibilities include:

  • Data analyses
  • Preparing scientific publications
  • Organizing and coordinating fieldwork in multi-site mesocosm experiment
  • Conducting respirometry experiments in the field
  • Co-supervising a Master student
 
 
 
 
 
July 2015 – December 2018
Vic, Spain

Pre-doctoral Fellow

Aquatic Ecology Group, Universitat de Vic

Responsibilities include:

  • Data analyses
  • Preparing scientific publications
  • Conducting mesocosm experiments and fieldwork
  • Microscopy
  • Water chemistry lab work

Research

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TRivers-P

Ecological status of temporary rivers

ACROSS

LAtitudinal gradients of speCies Richness and bOdy-Size Spectrum in multiple trophic levels and ecosystems

Collaborative projects

Collaborative projects

Iberian Ponds

Aquatic food webs across biogeographical gradients

Salinization in freshwater ecosystems

Salinization in freshwater ecosystems

Size-based freshwater food webs

Size-based trophic interactions in freshwater food webs

Submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes

Climate change effects on macrophytes in shallow lakes

Publications

(2022). Experimental assessment of salinization effects on freshwater zooplankton communities and their trophic interactions under eutrophic conditions. Environmental Pollution, 313, 120127.

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(2022). Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community-level salt tolerance. Limnology & Oceanography Letters.

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(2022). Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization. PNAS, 119 (9) e2115033119.

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(2022). Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments. Limnology & Oceanography Letters.

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(2020). Impact of nutrients and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a temperature gradient: a Pan-European mesocosm experiment. Global Change Biology, 26, 6831-8851.

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(2017). Size-based interactions across trophic levels of food webs in shallow Mediterranean lakes. Freshwater Biology, 62, 1819-1830.

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(2017). Size-based interactions and trophic transfer efficiency are modified by fish predation and cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Freshwater Biology, 62, 1942-1952.

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(2017). Role of predation in biological communities in naturally eutrophic subarctic Lake Mývatn, Iceland. Hydrobiologia, 790, 1, 213-223.

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