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June 2023: The second paper of the FORCIS project is out. The paper “The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminiferafrom ocean waters” published in Scientific Data, provides a perspective of the distribution patterns of planktonic foraminifera in the global ocean on large spatial (regional to basin scale, and at the vertical scale), and temporal (seasonal to interdecadal) scales over the past century. This is my fifth publication with no supervisor.
June 2023: Joining the AZTI summer school "Innovativeand practical tools for monitoring and assessing multiple human pressuresaffecting biodiversity in marine systems” was a great opportunity to learn more about the actions of EU Horizon projects, meet and interact with experts from different institutions and universities.
May 2023: Contributing to the organization and actively joining UNESCO's Intergrated Ocean Carbon Research workshop as an EU Coordinator was a unique experience. I had the opportunity to interact with many experts on Ocean Carbon and discuss the state-of-the-art of different carbon topics.
March 2023: Excited to join the kick off
meeting of EU Horizon MARCO-BOLO (MARine Coastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations) project as representative of the G7 FSOI Coordination Centre and provide a
short presentation the G7 FSOI 2023 workplan for Marine Life.
December 2022: Excited to join the 2nd European Ocean Observing System (EOOS) Resource Forum Meeting as representative of the G7 FSOI Coordination Centre and provide a short presentation of the G7 FSOI 2023 workplan for Marine Life.
November 2022: The annual G7 FSOI working group meeting took place in Berlin, Germany. It was a great experience and my first meeting with my new role in science diplomacy and as an EU Coordinator for the G7 FSOI. You can find more details about the meeting here.
November 2022: It was a great experience to join the 2022 EuropaBON and Biodiversa+ workshop in Brusells and discuss with colleagues about actions needed for the future of the European biodiversity framework for terrastial and aquatic ecosystems.
October 2022: Joining the Copernicus Biodiversity inCoastal Ecosystems Workshop was a good opportunity to learn more about how biodiversity data and modelling projections are being used in policy development for biodiversity conservation in coastal regions.
September 2022: Joining the 2nd workshop on the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive pelagic habitats was a great opportunity to get an overview on the MSFD D1C6 pelagic habitat assessment and monitoring across marine regions and discuss how we can promote the use of new data (other than in-situ) and identify good practices/methods that allow monitoring of the Pelagic Habitat and GES assessment.
August 2022: Super excited for being a Steering Committee member of the 7th International Zooplankton Symposium, in 2024, in Hobart, Australia.
August 2022: Very happy to see our paper “Modelling approaches for capturing plankton diversity (MODIV), their societalapplications and data needs” published as a perspective article in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. In the article we present 6 different modelling approaches for modelling plankton diversity, pros and cons, their societal applications and data needs. This is my third publication with no supervisor.
August 2022: Super-excited to join Mercator Ocean international as a Science Officer for the EU4OceanObs project and an EU Coordinator
for the G7 Future of the Seas and Ocean Initiative (G7 FSOI). This position is a transition from research to science diplomacy
and coordination. Still, I will have the opportunity to continue working on
research projects with Mercator colleagues from the Operational Oceanography and Ditigal Twin of the Ocean
departments and external collaborators.
May 2022: The first paper of the FORCIS group “The Foraminiferal Response to Climate Stressors Project: Tracking the CommunityResponse of Planktonic Foraminifera to Historical Climate Change” is out. Check it out if you want learn more about the project aims and goals. This is my second publication with no supervisor.
February 2022: Joining the Blue-Cloud Hackathon was a great opportunity to learn more about the Blue-Cloud and have fun while working on our project with Mattia Greco, Esteban Acevedo-Trejos and Daniel Gray.
January 2022: The report of the 2020-2021 MBON plankton workshop
series “Plankton Ecosystem Function, Biodiversity, and
Forecasting—Research Requirements and Applications” is published as Meeting Highlights in the Limnology and Oceanography Bulleting journal.You can find the article here. This is my first publication with no supervisor.
November 2021: Organizing the MBON plankton workshop series “Plankton Ecosystem Function, Biodiversity, and Forecasting—Research Requirements and Applications” was a unique experience. Many thanks to the amazing organizing committee, all speakers, chairs, co-chairs and participants for their help and contributions to the fruitful discussions. Special thanks to Prof. Anthony Richardson and Dr. Jason Everett for organizing the workshop for East Asia and Oceania.
September 2021: Super excited to receive the FILAMO fellowship for early careers. For the next 3 months, I will be in University of Bergen working with Prof and Vice Dean of Marine Research Øyvind Fiksen and the Theoretical Ecology Group on how to advance zooplankton realism in ecosystem trait-based models. Øyvind is an amazing scientist and mentor and I look forward to working with him.
October 2020: I am beyond happy for receiving the Charles Downie Award from the Micropaleontological Society for my PhD article “A trait-based modelling approach to planktonic foraminifera ecology”. Many thanks to the foraminifera community for welcoming my research, to the Micropaleontological Society for the award and to my co-authors for their contributions and support.
June 2019: Happy to be a member of the FORCIS project, investigating how foraminifera response to climatic stress. More details on the FORCIS website.
April 2019: The first paper of my PhD "A trait-based modelling approach to planktonic foraminifera ecology" has been published in Biogeosciences. We developed the first trait-based model for planktonic foraminifera and expolored how diet, feeding behaviour and calcification traits and trade-offs are linked with distribution patterns of non-spinise planktonic foraminifera.