I connect theory with experiments in evolutionary ecology to predict how bacteria respond to environmental stressors. My PhD in Portugal (2023) used fitness landscapes theory to predict bacterial evolution under antibiotic and heat stress. My postdoc at UniBE (2025) investigated the resilience of soil bacterial communities to extreme heat. My future work will focus on bacterial recombination in fluctuating environments, with the goal of using soil bacteria to understand prokaryotic speciation.
Thanks to funding from the UniBE Digitalization Strategy 2030 and Innovation office, I am leading a 6-month project to design interactive tools for learning and teaching mathematical modeling in ecology and evolution.
