Senior researcher (Talento CAM)

I’m an evolutionary ecologists interested in understanding and predicting the responses of animals to environmental changes, and particularly on the effect of climate on animal physiology, energy balance, and behavior. Animals exchange heat, water, oxygen, and nutrients with their environments and this determines the energy available to grow and reproduce, their niche (where they can live), the evolution of functional traits like body size and shape, and their responses to environmental changes. My research combines theoretical models and empirical data synthesis to understand how energy and matter exchange determine these processes.

Focused on animal energetics, I work across different taxa and ecological systems including terrestrial and aquatic ectotherms and endotherms. For example, I’m interested in the effects of climate on thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles and amphibians; the role of water temperature and oxygen availability on aerobic metabolism in fish; and how environmental conditions drive thermoregulatory costs and energy balance of birds and mammals.

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