Highlighted events, interviews, products and media content

Organizer of talks for distinct institucional events. 2025.

Speaker at Belgium Economic Misson to Brazil 2024: Enhancing biodiversity and sustainable practices at Fairmont Rio de Janeiro.
Talk:  Socio-ecological systems in the Amazon.

Organizer, moderator and speaker of the Symposium 12: "Frugivory Networks Across Scales", together with Paulo Guimarães Jr (USP). International Frugivory and Seed Dispersal Symposium, Ilhéus, Brasil. 2024

Invited speaker at the oral session "On the role of plant-enemy interactions in shaping tropical forest communities across ecological gradients", as part of the Barro Colorado Island – 100 years Centennial Science Symposium, organized by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and held in Gamboa, Panamá on June 17-20, 2024. My talk was entitled: "“The interplay between defaunation and phylogenetic diversity affects leaf damage by natural enemies in tropical plants".

Invited participant at CNPq/Sinbiose - NSF/ESIIL workshop on Data Synthesis to further Norht-South global collaborations. Brasília - DF, 2024.

Invited participant at the International Workshop: "Pollination networks in fragmented landscapes". Unicamp, São Paulo. Nov 2023.

Co-organizer of the open round-table entitled: 'People and Plants - the importance of creating networks', at the 19th National Science and Technology Week at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Oct 2022.

Invited speaker - Seminar about the Amazon and its different point of views

Lab opened to received the participants of the National Week of Science and Technology 2024

Invited participant at 'The Scientist Warning' Movie, featured by William J. Ripple and presented by Oregon State University and the Alliance of World Scientists.

Opening talk of the 2022 Scientific Seminars of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute - Portuguese only.

Brazilian Meeting of Ecology (RABECO) 2021
Chair and organizer of the symposium: "The ecological and evolutionaty implications of the webs of life" - Portugue only.

Invited contributor to the global campaign called 'The International Scholars Warning on the Corporate-Capture of the Climate Agenda and Need for a Real Green Revolution'
urging communities to lead their own ‘emergency response’ after ‘failure’ of COP26 to slash dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. Promoted by 'Facing Future'.

Invited Panelist at the "Merging social, economic and ecological networks for sustainable and resilient food systems". Royal Society Resilient Futures Challenge-led project. Talk: Seed dispersal networks in human-modified landscapes and their potential to enhance conservation, restoration and food security. Newcastle University. 2020.

Translation of the promotional video "Searching for the Stresemann's Bristlefront" from the National Centre for Wild Birds Research and Conservation (ICMBIo/CEMAVE).

Interview for 'Brasil Rural - Radio Nacional' (2024) - " Pragas consideradas prejudiciais podem ajudar na biodiversidade" (Portuguese only, https://radios.ebc.com.br/brasil-rural/2024/02/pragas-consideradas-prejudiciais-podem-ajudar-na-biodiversidade)

Interview for 'Radio Unesp' (2019) - The loss of plant-animal interactions - ecological, evolutionary and social implications ( Portuguese only, www.radio.unesp.br/entrevistas).

Interview for, and assistance producer of, 'BBC Radio 4' (2012) - Amazonia - keeping it alive.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rws2v

Science education - main media highlights

My outreach article featured at Journal of Ecology blog.

An article at The Conversation featuring our research at the reservoir of Balbina Dam, Central Amazon.

Our article describing the beaties and challenges of working with a socio-ecological system in the Amazon.

Sharing some findings from my 4-y postdoc at FAPESP newsletter. FAPESP finances cutting-edge research from public institutions in Brazil.

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Public engagement writing to the 'The Science Breaker' website and app.

Public engagement to promote Science and Public Universities in Brazil.

Infographic to communicate our findings published in Science Advances (doi10.1126/sciadv.aav6699) to the general public interested in Biodiversity and Conservation.