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
Feel free to contact me!
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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