Juliana Stropp

Curriculum vitae

Education

• 2006 - 2011:
  PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity
  Plant Ecology and Biodiversity Group
  Utrecht University, Netherlands
• 2002 - 2004:
  Master in Tropical Ecology
  National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA)
  Manaus, Brazil
• 1994 - 1999:
  BSc. in Ecology
  São Paulo State University (UNESP)
  Rio Claro, Brazil

Current postion:

• 2022 - present:
  Independent Researcher (own position)
  Department of Biogeography and Global Change
  National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC)
  Madrid, Spain

Previous positions:

• 2019 - 2022
  Marie Curie fellow[*]
  Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global
  Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain;
  Seconded (Mar - Aug 2020) to the Computer Science Department, University of Luxembourg, Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
• 2016 - 2017
  Postdoctoral researcher[*]
  Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió; Visiting researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN)
  Madrid, Spain
• 2015 - 2016
  Postdoctoral researcher[*]
  Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió
  Visiting researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
  Ispra, Italy
• 2015 - 2015
  Research consultant Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
  Ispra, Italy
• 2012 - 2015
  Postdoctoral researcher Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
  Ispra, Italy
• 2005 - 2006
  Research fellow Utrecht University,
  Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Oxford University, Oxford, UK
• 2004 - 2005
  Research fellow[*]
  National Institute for Research in the Amazon
  Manaus, Brazil
• 2001 - 2002
  Research fellow[*]
  National Institute for Space Research
  São José dos Campos, Brazil

Aquisition of third-party funding (own grants)

• 2022 - 2023
  Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC; Spain) IF- ERC; 1.5 years Extension of the Marie Curie Project (€ 80.000) [Awarded to 15 MSCA fellows in Spain]
• 2019
  European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant (#843234, € 172 932,48)
• 2016 - 2018
  Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq); Fellowship for Post-doctoral research (BRL 54,000)
• 2007 - 2011
  Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq); 3-year fellowship for PhD research
• 2006 - 2010
  “Alberta Mennega Stichting” and “Miquel and Van Eeden fonds”; Grant for conducting botanical expedition (€ 7,250)
• 2006 - 2007
  Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and “Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil”; Grant for PhD research (USD 21,000)
• 2002
  World Wildlife Found “Programa Natureza e Sociedade”; Award for MSc (BRL 6,000)

Approved and submitted grant proposals (contributing)

• 2019 - 2025
  Project title: TROPIBIO; Funding source: European Commission; Amount: 2M (ongoing); Role: Contribute to 1) capacity-building directed to African earlycareer researchers to acquire research grants and 2) conceptual framework linking taxonomic uncertainty and biodiversity conservation
• 2023 - 2028
  Project title: Synthesis of Amazonian Biodiversity (SinBiAm); Funding source: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); Amount: 780.000 EUR; 3.9K BRL (approved); Role: Map the distribution described, exotic, and potentially threatened species in Amazonia
• 2023 - 2026
  Project title: Integrating ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical perspectives on the interplay between niche, coexistence and distribution (NICED); Funding source: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Amount: 321.952 EUR (submitted); Role: Develop a flexible protocol for filtering species occurrence data retrieved from Global Biodiversity Databases (e.g., GBIF and iDigBio)

(Co-)Supervision of BSc, MSc and PhD Students

• Ongoing
  Cristina Ronquillo Ferrero. PhD student at National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
• Ongoing
  Fernanda Paixão. BSc student at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazi
• Ongoing
  Ana Carolina da Costa Gontijo. BSc student at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (post-doc financed with resources from TAXONTIME project)
• Ongoing
  Max Willian Tavares de Almeida. PhD student at Federal Unversity of Goiás (UFG), Goiania, Brazil
• 2021 - 2021
  Andreza A. Pereira. Independent researcher based in Brazil (pos-doc financed with resources from TAXON-TIME project)
• 2021 - 2021
  Amara Santiesteban Serrano. MSc student at International University Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Spain Selected for summer school on Plant Humanities (with paid fellowship) at Dumbarton Oaks; Trustees for Harvard Universit
• 2017 - 2021
  Adriana Costa. PhD student at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Brazil
• 2016 - 2018
  Bruno Umbelino. MSc student at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Brazil
  Winner of the GBIF 2016 Young Researchers Award
• 2016 - 2017
  Nicolli Albuquerque. Bachelor student at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Brazil Winner of the academic excellence award from UFAL
• 2015 - 2016
  Isiane M. dos Santos. Bachelor student at Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, Brazil
• 2008 - 2009
  Peter van der Sleen. MSc student at Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  cum laude (awarded to <5% of all degrees)
• 2007 - 2008
  Tessa van der Wijngaart. MSc student at Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Organisation of scientific meetings

• 2017
  Three-day workshop on “Mapping ignorance”, National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), 15 participants from Brazil, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, and UK, Madrid, Spain
• 2012
  BIOPAMA Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa, ca. 70 participants from Europe and Southern Africa Countries, Johannesburg, South Africa (capacity building for management of protected areas)

Invited presentations

• 2022
  Taxonomic uncertainty and the challenge of estimating global species richness. III Meeting of Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution (Online Conference)
• 2021 & 2022
  TROPIBIO & UNESCO Chair Life on Land: a series of six webinars on how to prepare a successful Marie Curie application; directed to African and Brazilian researchers
• 2020
  EURAXESS - Brazil: Webinar on MSCA-IF for Brazilian researchers.
• 2017
  The challenges of using natural history collections in biogeography. National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC). [1k views on YouTube]
• 2015
  Sampling bias on biodiversity studies
  Three-day Workshop on Biogeography of Tropical Forests. University of Turku, Turku, Finland
• 2013
  White-sand forests of the upper Rio Negro
  Symposium: Floristics, Ecology and Evolution of Vegetation in Oligotrophic White-Sand and Sandstone Habitats in the Neotropics. ATBC Conference, San José, Costa Rica:– invitation declined

Reviewing Activities

• 2011 - present
  Invited referee for Acta Amazonica, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Biodiversity and Conservation, Ecography, Ecological Indicators, Frontiers of Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography, Nature Ecology and Evolution; Nature Scientific Reports, Plant and Soil, Science of the Total Environment
• 2018 - present
  Invited evaluator on PhD committee at Federal University of Alagoas

Outreach activites

• 2022
  Woman in Science: What do the scientists do in the Amazonian rainforest? Colegio Publico Marie Curie, Sevilla, Spain
• 2018
  Workshop Meet the Fish: What is in the menu today? - extra-curricular activities to discuss precedence and ecology of fish species offered in the school’s menu. Colegio Público Aldebaran, Tres Cantos, Spain
• 2017
  Workshop on the daily life of primary school students of urban schools in Spain and rural schools in Amazonia, Colegio Público Aldebaran, Tres Cantos, Spain
• 2008 - 2009
  Ten-month of training school teachers on scientific techniques for conducting ecological fieldwork. Indigenous School EIBC-Pamaali, Upper Rio Negro, Brazil

Research Expeditions

• 2008 - 2009
  Upper Rio Negro, Brazil: twelve-months coordinating a team of students and field assistants in an expedition for setting up tree-inventory plots and transplanting experiment
• 2008
  Iwokrama Field Station, Guyana: one-month coordinating a team of students and field assistants in fieldwork expedition in remote regions for setting up a transplanting experiment
• 2004
  Central Amazonia, Brazil, Urubu River: more than fifteen expeditions varying in duration from 2 to 3-weeks for biodiversity surveys
• 2003
  Central Amazonia: one-month field training organized by OTS-Smithsonian/BDFFP

Curriculum vitae / Research interest / Projects / Publications