Supervision

Theses, dissertations, final projects and undergraduate research, in the Ecology and Environmental Monitoring (PPGEMA) and Biological Sciences (PPGCB) programmes at UFPB, alongside international collaborations.

In progress

Doctorate

  • since 2022
    Tarcianne Maria Lima de Oliveira

    Theoretical and methodological foundations for integrated strategies of governance, research and community development based on sustainability big data in the state of Paraíba.

    Biological Sciences (Zoology), UFPB · supervisor

  • since 2022
    Fabrício Ferreira Jerônimo

    Mutualistic interaction networks between plants and frugivorous animals in forest fragments of the northern Paraíba coast: foundations for a metacommunity approach to biodiversity conservation and restoration.

    Biological Sciences (Zoology), UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

Master's

  • since 2021
    Alan Felix Meyer Carletto

    Structure and topological roles of species in interaction networks between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a coastal dune gradient in northern Paraíba.

    PPGEMA, UFPB · co-supervisor

  • since 2020
    José Afonso Santana de Almeida

    Opportunities and challenges for socio-ecological coviability in buriti extractivist communities in Barão de Cocais, Maranhão.

    PPGEMA, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

Other supervision

  • since 2022
    Lucas Albuquerque Freire

    Tool use by capuchin monkeys in Pesqueira, Pernambuco.

    UFPB · supervisor

  • since 2022
    Mateus Lima Dutra

    Structural analysis of interaction networks between snakes and their prey in Cerrado areas.

    UFPB · supervisor

Completed

Doctorate

  • 2017
    Viviana Márquez Velásquez

    Structure, dynamics and conservation of a food web in the Central Colombian Pacific.

    Biological Sciences (Zoology), UFPB · FAPESQ · co-supervisor

  • 2016
    Kate Pereira Maia

    Insect–plant interaction networks with perspectives for restoration. Co-supervision of the chapter on adaptive network models.

    University of Bristol, UK · main supervisor Jane Memmott · CAPES

Master's

  • 2019
    Fabrício Jerônimo de Oliveira

    Interaction networks between ornithochorous plants and frugivorous animals in the Guaribas Biological Reserve, Paraíba.

    PPGEMA, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

  • 2019
    Amanda Santana de Oliveira

    Coevolution between traits and sexual preference: effects of the interaction between natural and sexual selection in a mutualistic system.

    PPGEMA, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

Final undergraduate projects

  • 2020
    Caroline Souza dos Santos

    Modularity and topological roles of species in two Atlantic Forest fragments with different degrees of disturbance.

    BSc in Ecology, UFPB

  • 2020
    Taquiria Kauna Oliveira de Souza

    Foundations for a socio-ecological governance strategy on the northern coast of Paraíba.

    BSc in Ecology, UFPB

  • 2020
    Rafaela Raillem Notine Batista

    Necrophagous insect assemblages associated with cadavers in Lisbon: successional variation in composition, abundance and interspecific competition.

    BSc in Ecology, UFPB · CNPq

  • 2019
    Amanda Santana de Oliveira

    The interaction between natural and sexual selection in the origin of biodiversity: mating patterns and adaptive diversification in mutualistic systems.

    BSc in Ecology, UFPB · CNPq

Undergraduate research

  • 2020
    Rafaela Raillem Notine Batista

    Foundations for applying ecological networks as modelling tools in forensic entomology.

    BSc in Ecology, UFPB · CNPq

Open to supervise

I welcome applications for master's and doctoral study at UFPB's PPGEMA and PPGCB, on themes connected to ecological and socio-ecological networks, multicultural ecology, and data science applied to sustainability.