Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

APECS Brazil

I´m a PhD candidate in Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGE/UFRJ). I have worked with Antarctic seabirds since 2002 and I went to Antarctica on six expeditions with the Brazilian Antarctic Program. I completed my Master´s degree in Ecology in 2008 and in the same year I started my PhD project: "Behavioral ecology, reproductive biology and non-invasive analysis on stress ecology and heavy-metals contamination of Antarctic Skuas (Catharacta lonnbergi and C. maccormicki)". My PhD fellowship is of CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development / Brazil). Additionally I´m Associate Editor of Oecologia Australis, the scientific Journal of the PPGE/UFRJ, which publishes Ecology reviews (http://www.oecologiaaustralis.org)