BRIEF CV

Ana M. C. Santos, PhD

Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow
Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM)

Departamento de Ecología
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

CAREER

|  2022 – Present | Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

|  2019 – 2021  |  Assistant Professor (Prof. Ayudante Doctora). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

|  2019  |  Assistant Researcher (Investigadora Auxiliar). Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c). Faculdade de Cieências, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).

|  2016 – 2019  |  Juan de la Cierva (Incorporación) Research Fellow. Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain).

|  2014 – 2016  |  Marie Curie Research Fellow. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC, Madrid, Spain).

|  2012 – 2014  |  Postdoctoral Researcher. Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)& Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC, Madrid Spain).

|  2011 – 2012  |  Postdoctoral Researcher. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Univ. Federal de Goiás (Goiânia, Brazil).

|  2010  |  PhD (Biology). Imperial College London (London, UK).

|  2003 – 2005  | Research assistant in the INTERFRUTA project (Azores), Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade dos Açores (Angra do Heroísmo,  Portugal).

2003  |  BSc (Biology). Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal).

PROJECTS

Principal Investigator

| 2022-2025 | DUNGPOOL – Effects of species pool and community assembly processes on dung beetle diversity and ecosystem functions in a warming world. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Funding Agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain). 176.660€

 

| 2018-2019 | Impacts and mitigation of climate change on the ecosystem services provided by dung beetles in mountain pasturelands. Universidad de Alcalá (Spain).

Funding Agency: Fundación Biodiversidad (Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico; Spain). 62.383,64€

| 2017-2018 | Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of vertebrate communities in protected areas Universidad de Alcalá (Spain).

Funding Agency: Universidad de Alcalá. 5.000€

| 2016 | The effect of cattle management on the diversity and ecosystem services provided by dung beetles. Center of application: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain).

​Funding Agency: Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre. 3.000€

| 2014 – 2016 | Spatial variation in community structure: species, functional and phylogenetic diversity at different scales [FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF: COMMSTRUCT]

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain).

Funding Agency: EU – Marie Curie Individual Fellowships Actions (7th European Community Framework Programme). 19.200€

| 2005 | Synthesys Grant. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain).

Funding Agency: EU.

EDUCATION

| 2006-2010 | PhD in Biology. Imperial College London, UK.

| 1998-2003 |  BSc in Biology. Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências. Portugal.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

| 2022-2023 |  Guest co-editor for Journal Biogeography. Special issue “Functional Island Biogeography“, to be published in 2023.

| Since 2020 |  Associate Editor for Journal of Animal Ecology.

| Since 2020 |  Reviewer of grant proposals for the British Ecological Society.

| Since 2016 | Associate Editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography.

| Since 2014 |  Coordinator of the Island Biogeography Interest Group (IBIG) of the Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre.

| 2014-2016 |  Guest co-editor for Global Ecology and Biogeography. Special issue “New Directions in Island Biogeography“ published in 2016.

| 2013-2015 | Member of the board of Officers of the International Biogeographic Society (Student-at-large ex officio) and appointed member of the Early Career Biogeographers Committee.

| 2011-2013 | Member of the Board of Directors (Student-at-larger) of the International Biogeographic Society; head of the Early Career Biogeographers Committee; member Advertising and Outreach Committee.

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING 

GLOBAL CHANGE

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JOURNALS

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Ana M. Coelho dos Santos

Dpto. Ecología, Edificio de Biologia, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid 

ana.margarida.c.santos@gmail.com

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