I received a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF, Brazil) in 2012. During 2015-2016 I was a post-doctoral researcher from the Azores University (UAc, Portugal) studying the functional ecology of two sympatric crabs in the intertidal community structure of rock shores and its niche overlap assessment. Currently, I work with conservation biology in Portuguese society for the study of birds (SPEA, Portugal) in the scope of LIFE Programme projects.