I am interested in the mechanisms that sustains parasite maintenance and prompts disease emergence in the ecosystem. Transmission of pathogens rely on the ecological interactions between parasites, hosts and vectors and are greatly influenced by historical and current socio-environmental scenarios. This complexity has fascinated me and has pushed me to study multi-host pathogen disease systems with emphasis on arboviruses. Concentrated in biological communities as the resource that constrains the abundance of pathogens, I have been working in: a) how the structure and composition of natural communities help to explain the variation in arbovirus prevalence; b) how biotic and abiotic factors and neutral process operate in community assembling of hosts and vectors; and c) how virus transmission can be tracked through the pattern of vector blood feeding. To address these topics, I use an arrangement of theories and tools from community ecology, disease ecology and network science while my curiosity about natural history, concern in biodiversity conservation, and public health influence me to take on One Health stance.
doctorate at Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas. FCEFyN. UNC from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Argentina (2017). Has experience in Ecology, focusing on Ecology
I am interested in the mechanisms that sustains parasite maintenance and prompts disease emergence in the ecosystem. Transmission of pathogens rely on the ecological interactions between parasites, hosts and vectors and are greatly influenced by historical and current socio-environmental scenarios. This complexity has fascinated me and has pushed me to study multi-host pathogen disease systems with emphasis on arboviruses. Concentrated in biological communities as the resource that constrains the abundance of pathogens, I have been working in: a) how the structure and composition of natural communities help to explain the variation in arbovirus prevalence; b) how biotic and abiotic factors and neutral process operate in community assembling of hosts and vectors; and c) how virus transmission can be tracked through the pattern of vector blood feeding. To address these topics, I use an arrangement of theories and tools from community ecology, disease ecology and network science while my curiosity about natural history, concern in biodiversity conservation, and public health influence me to take on One Health stance.
Possui doutorado em Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas. FCEFyN. UNC - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Argentina (2017). Atualmente é post doctoral associate - University of Florida. Tem experiência na área de Ecologia, com ênfase em Ecologia
