I am a theoretically oriented ecologist and modeller whose research investigates how ecological interactions, spatial structure, and environmental heterogeneity shape the maintenance of biodiversity and the persistence of populations. My work combines ecological and evolutionary theory, mathematical and computational modeling, and empirically grounded parameterization, as well as theoretical exploration, to uncover the principles that govern how ecological complexity and spatial heterogeneity sustain diversity and stability in nature. Through my research, I aim to advance our knowledge of the potential impacts of landscape alteration on the processes that maintain biodiversity and on the capacity of nature to adapt in response to future environmental changes.
At ISEM, as part of my Marie Curie fellowship, I am developing and analyzing models to investigate the following questions: Does eco‑evolutionary feedback increase or decrease the amount of genetic variation maintained in a metapopulation living in a heterogeneous landscape? What are the effects of landscape structure, movement, and interaction regimes of individuals on genetic variation? Do metapopulations with different spatial population structure evolve and respond to environmental changes (e.g., evolutionary rescue) differently from each other?