Rodrigo Costa-Araújo

Diploma in Biological Sciences in the Pontifical Catholic University from Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Master of Science in Ecology in the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil), and Philosophy Doctor in Biology (Ecology) in the National Institute of Amazon Researches (Manaus, Brazil) with a research stay in the Deutsches Primatenzentrum (Göttingen, Deutschland). After one and a half years as associate researcher in the Mastozoology Collection of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, leading the project "Macroecology of Neotropical primates", I am now a Alexander von Humboldt and CAPES post-doc researcher in the Deutsches Primatenzentrum, investigating the origin and evolution of Neotropical primates. I am mostly interested in phylogenetic systematics, evolutionary biology, biogeography, ecology and conservation of Neotropical Primates and also on the synthesis of these areas using macroecology. I have experience in all levels of teaching, fundraising, scientific outreach and communication and environmental consulting. I am member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Primatologia, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Primatología and International Primatological Society, and also alumnus of the Conservation Leadership Programme.