Teaching and outreach

Taking the public university inland brings the finest scientific expertise into direct contact with the most creative roots of a territory. The courses and projects below try to cultivate that encounter.

Courses taught

44undergraduate sections
15graduate sections
  • Graduate
    Biodiversity and Geodiversity in the Anthropocene

    1 section (2025.2)

  • Undergraduate
    Biostatistics

    10 sections (2018.1, 2018.2, 2019.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2020.2, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2022.1, 2022.2)

  • Undergraduate
    Biogeography and Palaeoecology

    7 sections (2017.2, 2018.1, 2018.2, 2024.2, 2025.1, 2025.2, 2026.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Cell Biology

    3 sections (2017.1, 2023.2, 2024.1)

  • Graduate
    Conservation Biology

    2 sections (2020.1, 2021.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Evolutionary Biology

    2 sections (2022.1, 2024.2)

  • Undergraduate
    Field Ecology

    2 sections (2019.1, two in the same term)

  • Graduate
    Community and Ecosystem Ecology

    2 sections (2018.1, 2019.2)

  • Graduate
    Community Ecology

    1 section (2022.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Population Ecology

    1 section (2021.2)

  • Graduate
    Population Ecology

    1 section (2024.1)

  • Graduate
    Environmental Economics

    1 section (2026.1)

  • Graduate certificate
    Environmental Education and Sustainable Development

    1 section (2026.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Supervised Internship III

    5 sections (2019.2, 2021.1, 2021.2, 2022.2, 2023.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Genetics and Evolution

    1 section (2023.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Plant–Animal Interactions

    2 sections (2020.1, 2025.1)

  • Undergraduate
    Environmental Microbiology

    11 sections (2016.2, 2017.1, 2017.2, 2018.1, 2018.2, 2019.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2020.2, 2021.1, 2022.2)

  • Graduate
    Student Progress Seminars

    5 sections (2019.1, 2020.1, 2021.1, 2022.1, 2024.1)

  • Graduate
    Special Topics in Ecology and Environmental Monitoring

    1 section (2017.2)

  • Graduate
    Special Topics in Ecology and Sustainability

    1 section (2026.1)

  • Graduate certificate
    General Topics in Ecology

    1 section (2025.2)

Outreach projects

  • since 2024
    Plantando uma Escola Viva Potiguara

    Education and territory in dialogue with the Potiguara people of Paraíba's north coast. With Anna Dantes and Victor Junior Lima Felix.

    Coordination · ongoing

  • since 2018
    Programming and data analysis for environmental analysts

    Continuing education at CEMAVE/ICMBio, producing technical and theoretical input for biodiversity conservation policy. With Camila Garcia Gomes.

    Coordination · ongoing

  • 2021 – 2022
    Inovale — Solidarity economy and sustainability in the Mamanguape Valley

    Project with three undergraduate students, in partnership with Maria Angeluce Soares Perônico Barbotin, Antonio Alberto Pereira, José Bezerra and Murilo Abacherli de Camargo.

    Coordination · completed

International training

  • since 2025
    MIASAGA Methodologies and Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Agroecology and Governance Adaptivity

    Teaching project under IRD's PSF-SUD programme, with Laure Berti-Équille. Connects training in data science and agroecology across institutions in Brazil, France, Morocco, Senegal and Vietnam.