My research
I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, as part of the Amazon-FLUX project. By using large-scale experiments during my PhD studies (AFEX), my previous postdoc (AmazonFACE) and my current postdoc position I can ultimately generate information regarding how nutrient availability may constrain the responses of forests to global climate change (e.g. increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration, drought, nitrogen and phosphorus deposition). My research focus on soil-plant interactions in the Amazon, investigating belowground mechanisms related to phosphorus cycling, such as root traits, mycorrhizae fungi and soil microorganisms. Adding to my previous experience, now I am to understand the role of water availability shaping nutrient cycles in Amazonia.
Education
Research Interests
Nutrient cycling
My research explores how nutrients, especially phosphorus, cycle in Amazonian soils and in between soil and the vegetation and the effects on above and belowground compartments.
2006 - 2010
Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil
BSc Forest Engineer
Concentration: Forest Ecology
Climate change
My ultimate research interest combines nutrient cycling and soil-plant interactions in the Amazon aiming to understand future consequences of vegetation and climate feedback in a changing world.
Soil-plant interaction
Because of the great importance of edaphic properties to Amazonian forest functioning, I explore the role that roots, mycorrhizas, enzymes, green and senesced leaves have on phosphorus cycling and nutrient use efficiency.
2011 - 2013
National Institute of Amazonian Research, Brazil
MSc in Tropical Forest Sciences
Concentration: Forest ecology and management
2013 - 2015
National Institute for Spacial Research, Brazil
Fellow Research from the Thematic Network of Geoinformation and Environmental Modelling of Amazonia
Amazon forests
By linking soil and plant functioning, my goal is to provide information about community and ecosystem dynamics of Amazonian lowland forests.
2019 - 2022
National Institute of Amazonian Research, Brazil
Postdoctoral researcher at the AmazonFACE project
2015 - 2019
University of Exeter, England
PhD in Physical Geography
Concentration: Tropical ecology and biogeochemistry
2022 - present
Technical University of Munich
Postdoctoral researcher at the Amazon-FLUX project