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Rafael Silva Oliveira Versão em português
Area Panel - Biology
Rafael Oliveira received a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences (1997) and masters in Ecology (1999) from the University of Brasília and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2005). He was a post-doc researcher at INPE (2005) and CENA-USP (2006-2007).
Currently, Rafael is a professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. He was the head of the Graduate Program in Ecology at Unicamp and a visiting Professor at Wageningen University, The Netherlands (2018).
He is a member of the editorial boards of Functional Ecology (since 2015) and Plant and Soil (since 2009). His research is focused on plant functional ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology and the use of stable isotopes in ecological studies.