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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Espanha
He has a degree in Physics from the Universidad de La Laguna (Spain, 2010), a Masters in Physics from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain, 2011) and a PhD in Physics from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (Spain, 2014). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (USA, 2014-2019) and a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems (Germany, 2011) and at the Smithsonian Institute for Conservation Biology (USA, 2012). Since 2022 he is a Pesquisador IV (tenured researcher) at IFT-UNESP and associated researcher at ICTP- South American Institute for Fundamental Research (São Paulo). He is an affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2021), external faculty at the Princeton Center for the Physics of Biological Function (Princeton, USA), and a Simons Associate at Abdus Salam ICTP (Trieste, Italy). He was selected at the 3 Public Research Call of the Serrapilheira Institute (2020). Has experience in the area of Statistical Physics with applications in Ecology and Evolution. So far, a large part of his research is dedicated to the study of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities and the formation of self-organized structures in ecosystems with different characteristic scales, from bacterial biofilms to arid ecosystems. His work was featured in prestigious international journals, such as Physical Review Letters (editor's suggestion) and Science (journal cover). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Complex biological systems are composed by many entities that interact among them and with the environment in an intricate and highly nonlinear way. As a result of these interactions, complex systems often self-organize in spatiotemporal patterns. These patterns have attracted a lot of attention in the last years, initially due to their unquestionable beauty, and later due to the importan…
Microbial populations often secrete substances to the external medium to allow them to behave as a collective and perform some tasks more effectively. These behaviors are costly and hence prone to exploitation by mutants that do not participate in the collective action yet get their benefits. Understanding how natural populations avoid invasions by such mutants is a central question in ev…
Living beings very often interact with their conspecifics and form spatially heterogeneous spatial distributions. An example of such collective process is the formation of aggregates. In this project, the student will familiarize with different examples of aggregation processes in nature and learn the most commonly used techniques to model them. Finally, he will work on developing a video…
Traditional models aiming to describe spatially-extended ecological communities assume that individual perception is local i.e., individuals only perceive the environment or detect other individuals at their position. However, it is well-known that living organisms can perceive the environment on a long range. In this project, the student will investigate to which extent long-range intera…
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Starting from a unicellular ancestor, the evolution of multicellularity allowed nature to generate a whole new set of complex organisms on earth. This evolutionary revolution hasn't happened only once but multiple times across life history, and in markedly different ecologies. The result of this recurrent evolution of multicellularity through time is the diversity in shapes and sizes of t…
The human gut microbiome is a very diverse and complex ecosystem with many species interacting among themselves and with their environment. It is known to be connected to multiple aspects of the host's health, but it still needs more precise characterization to generate confident predictions of its behavior to help in the development of new techniques for disease prevention, diagnosis, an…
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