I completed a PhD degree in Conservation Biology at University of Lisbon in 2009. My line of research has been to study questions of fundamental and applied science relating to ecology and conservation from local to macroscale in order to address the most pressing conservation challenges worldwide. Over the last years, my research has largely focused on the effects of road network on birds and mammals, such as behaviour, relative abundance, mortality, genetic structure and extinction risk. In the last 12 years of post-doctoral contracts I moved to Spain, Brazil and Czech Republic to develop studies and collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team of researchers which allowed me to develop international collaboration networks and work closely with some of the world's leading researchers in Road Ecology. I coordinated scientific projects funded by Science Ministries in Portugal and Brazil and participated as a team member in 14 research projects. Research findings were presented in 41 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals reaching a total number of 3088 citations with a h-index of 31 (Google Scholar). My publications as 1st author in the Front Ecol Environ and Glob Ecol Biogeo attracted great media attention (>50 reports in the press from Brazil (e.g. National Geographic Brazil), UK (Daily Telegraph), Germany (Sueddeutsche); Spain (La Vanguardia), Portugal (e.g.SIC Noticias), Russia and USA (e.g. The Atlantic, New York Times). I participated in 70 scientific meetings, seminars and workshops as oral presentar and keynote speaker. I co-edited the "Handbook of Road Ecology" with more than 100 collaborators and the e-book "Integrating Transport Infrastructures with Living Landscapes". I was executive coordinator of project Review of Red list of Mammals in Portugal and evaluation of the conservation status POSEUR-03-2215-FC-000097. I supervised and co-supervised 3 PhD and 6 MSc thesis and currently 1 PhD and 3 MSc. I am Principal Investigator at CIBIO | InBio | BIOPOLIS and a permanent Professor at University Federal Lavras in Brazil on the behalf of Applied Ecology post-graduation program and Invited Assistant Professor at Faculty of Sciencies at the University of Lisbon.