I have received a Ph.D. degree in quantitative ecology from the University of Newcastle (UK). During 2017-2018 I was working as a post-doc within the MACDIV project funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT; Foundation for Science and Technology). My research interests span a number of different topics within the fields of macroecology and conservation biogeography. These include: i) explaining the distribution of species at large spatial scales from landscape to continental, and understanding the processes by which these distributions change over time ii) understanding the role of current and historical environmental conditions affect geographical patterns of biodiversity across large spatial scales. I also have a keen interest in the application of quantitative methods to ecology. As part of the MACDIV project, I investigated how spatial, historical and environmental factors influence different facets of spider diversity across Macaronesia. (Research Gate – Google Scholar)