Supervision

Ongoing

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.

  Graduate Programme in Biological Sciences (Zoology), UFPB · CNPq · supervisor

Undergraduate research

• since 2025
  Fred Karakará Potiguara

  Potiguara Rekoabeté: governance of the Potiguara body-territory.

  Indigenous Undergraduate Research Programme, UFPB · Instituto Serrapilheira · supervisor

Completed

Doctorate

• 2026
  Dr. Fabrício Ferreira Jerônimo

  Redes de interações mutualistas entre plantas e animais frugívoros em fragmentos florestais do litoral norte paraibano: subsídios para uma abordagem metacomunitária de conservação e restauração da biodiversidade.

  Graduate Programme in Biological Sciences (Zoology), UFPB · CAPES · supervisor. Support: FUNBIO

• 2021
  Dr. Viviana Márquez Velásquez

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

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

• 2020
  Dr. Kate Pereira Maia

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

  University of Bristol, UK · principal supervision by Jane Memmott · CAPES

  Winner of the Elton Prize — British Ecological Society

Master's

• 2025
  MSc. José Afonso Santana de Almeida

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

  PPGECOS, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

• 2024
  MSc. Alan Felix Meyer Carletto

  Structure and topological roles of species in interaction networks between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a coastal-dune gradient on Paraíba's north coast.

  PPGECOS, UFPB · co-supervisor

• 2019
  MSc. Fabrício Jerônimo de Oliveira

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

  PPGECOS, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

• 2019
  MSc. Amanda Santana de Oliveira

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

  PPGECOS, UFPB · CAPES · supervisor

Capstone theses

• 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

  Input for building a socio-ecological governance strategy on Paraíba's north coast.

  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 interplay 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

  Input for the application of ecological networks as modelling tools in forensic entomology.

  BSc in Ecology, UFPB · CNPq

Interested in working with me?

I periodically open applications for the master's and doctoral programmes of UFPB's PPGECOS and PPGCB, within the research lines described on this site. Applicants must go through the selection process of those graduate programmes, following the rules of the specific calls issued each year.

If you'd like to talk with me about supervision possibilities and academic partnerships, send an email to rafael.raimundo@academico.ufpb.br.