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Raul Costa-Pereira
    Assistant Professor •​​
    Universidade Estadual de Campinas •​​
    Associate Editor - Functional Ecology •​ & Individual-Based Ecology ​•​
    Ecology of Individual Variation Lab (LEVIn) •​

After realizing my lack of talent in soccer, I became interested in how individual variation arises in nature and how it affects the structure and functioning of populations, communities, and ecological interactions.​ My research is theory-driven and empirically-based; I aim to understand how ecological processes transcend biological organization levels to shape biodiversity patterns in space and time. I study diverse taxa, from tiny indoor invertebrates to gigantic Amazonian fruit-eating fishes. My ongoing research combines urban biodiversity patterns, food web / community ecology, and human social patterns in metropolises.
         I grew up in Central Brazil, not that far from the amazing Pantanal wetlands. I have obtained my Ph.D. from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, in December 2018. During my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at Rice University (USA) and University of Otago (New Zealand). I have also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at McMaster University (Canada)​ and Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal). In January 2020, I joined the Animal Biology Department at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil) as an Assistant Professor.


​Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Campinas • São Paulo • Brazil

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche