I graduated in Biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). In 2018, I concluded my MSc degree in Ecology and Environment, with a thesis entitled “Methodological and ecological insights on wind farm environmental impact assessment”, the result of a partnership between FCUP and an environmental consultancy company (Bioinsight). Its main goals were to understand the influence of the scavenger community composition and its avoidance behaviour towards the turbines on carcass removal, and test new detectability models.

My first contact with CIBIO team was during a curricular internship in my last year as a graduate student, with morphometric and genetic variability in small mammals. Since then I have developed a particular scientific interest on applied ecology as well as on environmental and ecological impact of human infrastructures. Thus, working under the scope of management and conservation of wild vertebrates’ projects has always been a personal objective, which I am now fulfilling in CIBIO. However, I am currently focused on the Birds Directive report under the Article 12, both for the wintering and breeding bird species occurring in Azores archipelago, in order to allow the European Commission to analyse the progress made with its implementation. This means the assessment and reporting on the size and trend of individual bird species’ populations and distributions, the main pressures and threats affecting species, as well as their coverage by the SPA network and conservation measures taken for them.