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