Ichthyologist

Natural History Museum Vienna
Ichthyological Curator
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Research associate
University of Bern, Aquatic Ecology and Evolution
Natural History Museum Bern
Bern, Switzerland
 

I am Biologist, and my main research focuses on the evolutionary history, taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and biogeography of European and Neotropical freshwater fishes. The overarching research goal seeks the understanding about the biological patterns, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that in combination have shaped the biodiversity of fishes over temporal scale. Currently, I am curator of Fish Collection at Natural History Museum Vienna and scientific researcher, where I am mainly studying the evolution and taxonomy of species complex of Europe and Neotropical fishes seeking to describe new species and investigating the macroevolutionary patterns and processes that drive its diversification. ​

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My research program spans the continuum from basic taxonomy to evolutionary questions based on phylogenetic comparative methods and diversification models to understand the morphological evolution involved in the transitions of Neotropical and European fish groups with distinct ecological roles and also underlying implications for diversification rate and species accumulation through time. I also have a passion for field work, fish photography, creating maps of fish geographic distributions, and to teaching Ichthyology.