Individual drivers and energetic costs of partial migration under future climate change scenarios
2025–2027 · Role: Fellow · Funding: Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain) · Total: €72,000 (declined)
On-going research
Mechanisms underlying the rapid loss of migratory behaviour under anthropogenic environmental change: a multidisciplinary approach (2025-2031)
Role: Principal Investigator. Contract funded by FCT (CEEC 6th Edition)
Wings of Change: Unravelling the ontogeny of bird migratory behaviour in a changing world (2025-2028)
PI: Inês Catry; Role: Team member. Project funded by FCT
EUFLYNET - A European flyway research network for the effective conservation of migrant landbirds (2023-2027)
PI: Ivan Maggini; Role: Grant Awarding Coordinator. Project funded by COST
Past projects
Effects of anthropogenic food subsidies on the health and movements of opportunistic avian species: a One Health approach
2024–2025 · Role: Fellow · Funding: Make our Planet Great Again Fellowship, Campus France (France) · Total: €30,500
Consequences of early-life conditions on first-year migratory decisions of a partially migratory species
2023–2025 · Role: Principal Investigator · Funding: British Ecological Society Large Grant (UK) · Total: £20,000
Ageing in nature: lifelong changes in the movement and social behaviour of the endangered Griffon Vulture
2023 · Role: Postdoctoral fellow · Funding: George S. Wise Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Uncovering how links between social and spatial interactions affect ecological processes
2022–2024 · Role: Postdoctoral researcher (PIs: Orr Spiegel & Noa Pinter-Wollman) · Funding: NSF-BSF Project, Tel Aviv University & University of California, LA
The environmental determinants of dispersal and migratory movements of long-lived birds
2018–2022 · Role: PhD candidate · Funding: PhD Scholarship, NEXUSS CDT, NERC (UK)
Birds on the move – Adaptive migratory behaviour in response to global environmental change
2018–2021 · Role: PhD candidate (PI: Inês Catry) · Funding: FCT (Portugal)
The environmental determinants of dispersal and migratory behaviour of long-lived birds
2018 (3-month placement) · Role: Scholarship · Funding: Newton Fund, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Houbara Conservation & Sustainable Hunting: An evidence-based approach
2015 · Role: GIS Technician (PI: Paul Dolman), University of East Anglia (UK)
Long range wireless devices for high-resolution monitoring of animal movement
2014–2017 · Role: Team member (PI: Aldina Franco) · Funding: NERC (UK)
Study of the migration of Lesser Black-backed Gulls
2014 (6-month placement) · Role: Scholarship · Funding: Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, European Union
Agro-forestry management practices of montados and its impacts on bats and birds
2012–2013 · Role: Research assistant (PI: Jorge Palmeirim) · Funding: FCT