Contact details

• Location: 2.32, Hopkirk Research Institute
  Campus: Manawatū

Qualifications

• Doctor in Ecology And Biodiversity - Universidade Estadual Paulista (2020)

Certifications and Registrations

• Licence, Co-Supervisor, Massey University
• Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Prizes and Awards

• Best Paper Award. In recognition of the originality and significance of the research and quality of presentation on the recommendation of the NZGRC 2022 Best Paper Committee: 'Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health' - New Zealand Geospatial Research Conference 2022 (2022)
• Early Career Researcher Award (2021) - Tāwharau Ora – School of Veterinary Science (2022)
• Best presentation Award (2022): Identifying remaining habitats suitable for wild bovids in Thailand​ - The 23rd Khon Kaen Veterinary Annual International Conference (KVAC) (2022)

Research Interests

• Quantitative ecology
• Disease Ecology
• Landscape Ecology
• Biodiversity and Conservation
• GIS
• Open Data
• Education

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences (070000):
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (080100):
Biological Sciences (060000): Community Ecology (060202):
Conservation and Biodiversity (050202):
Ecology (060200):
Environmental Science and Management (050200): Environmental Sciences (050000):
Evolutionary Biology (060300): Global Change Biology (069902): Host-Parasite Interactions (060307):
Information And Computing Sciences (080000):
Other Biological Sciences (069900):
Simulation and Modelling (080110):
Veterinary Epidemiology (070704): Veterinary Sciences (070700)

Keywords

• Animal ecology
• Disease ecology
• Biodiversity
• Spatial ecology
• Risk analysis
• Global change biology

Teaching Statement

My aim in teaching and supervision is to foster a passion for learning, alongside developing students’ conceptual thinking and understanding of theory and factual knowledge. I have a blog focused on Science and Education called Surviving in Science (Sobrevivendo na Ciência), where I co-write with Prof. Marco Mello. I have taught Statistical models, Community Ecology, and Ecosystems to Ecology and Biological Sciences undergraduates as a lecturer. Also, I have worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for postgraduate students over many years teaching Network Science. I have participated as a guest lecturer in courses on GIS, Open movement, Landscape Ecology, Piecewise Regression, Disease Ecology, Zoonotic Risk Prediction, QGIS, and R.

Graduate Supervision Statement

Besides research, teaching is a passion of mine. Supervision combines the two. My goal as a supervisor is to help students become lifelong learners and professionals of excellence. At Massey, I work on research projects and supervision in the Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory (mEpiLab) with Prof. David Hayman and other team members. I view the training of science students as a project-oriented learning process. Therefore, each student’s project is the primary tool to guide knowledge acquisition and skills on animal and disease ecology, GIS, and the scientific method. As a supervisor, I state that my mission from lessons learned in previous labs are the following:

• To conciliate the interplay between data, model building, and validation from diversity and disease forecasts by developing reproducible workflows;

• To help synthesize knowledge in ecology using theory and data-driven approaches;

• To predict risks and find solutions for health and animal conservation through spatial-temporal models and landscape analysis;

• Spread scientific knowledge to an audience as broad as possible;

• Train excellent new professionals.

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• Wantida Horpiencharoen - Doctor of Philosophy
  Wild bovid habitat and infectious disease risk in Thailand

Other Links

• Surviving in Science - English version available at the very bottom of all posts (Powered by Google Translate).