Teaching

Undergraduate courses
  • Lecturer of Invertebrate Zoology [virtual] (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2021)
  • Lecturer of Career in Biology [virtual] (Sao Lucas University, Brazil - 2020)
  • Lecturer Diversity, ecology and evolution of whip spiders (Washington and Lee University, Virginia, USA - 2019)
  • Lecturer of Entomology and Terrestrial Zoology (University of Copenhagen, Denmark - 2014-2016)
  • Lecturer of Arthropods (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2011-2013)
  • Tutor of Arthropods (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2008-2011)
High school / Elementary school
  • Entomology; elementary students [virtual] (Maple Bear, Londrina, Brazil, 2020)
  • Exploring Entomology After School Program; used a novel model to show how the process of science works; high school students (NMNH, Smithsonian, USA, 2019)
Workshop
  • Phylogenetic systematics (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 2007)

Mentoring

Current
Past
Kristian Greisen (2014)
Undergraduate student at University of Copenhagen, Denmark​
Taxonomy of Tanzanian schizomids.
Gabriel Seraphim (2018-2019)
​Undergraduate student at niversidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil​
Taxonomy of Vietnamese thelyphonids. (Published paper here)
Andrea Palomino Cardenas (2018-2019)
Undergraduate student at Universidad Nacional De San Antonio Abad Del Cusco, Peru​
Barcode of Peruvian amblypygids.
Rowan French (2018-2019)
​Undergraduate student at University of Alberta, Canada (now a grad student at University of Toronto)
​​Phylogeny and biogeography of Madagascan schizomids. (awarded $9,286.91 GGI grant)
Vanessa Vidal (2018-2020)
​Masters student at ​Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
​Behavior of Amazonian amblypygids. (Paper accepted at Journal of Natural History)
Joao Frederico Berner (2020-2022)
​Masters student at ​Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
​Species distribution modelling of the amblypygid genus Heterophynus.

Evaluations

​Mentee evaluation: PDF
Student evaluation (invited talk given at the Washington & Lee University, USA - 2018): PDF