People

Lab Members

Aurora Garcia-Berro
FPU PhD Student
(Former MSc Student and Research Assistant)

Mara Vicelja
MSc Student (UB)
(Former Erasmus+ student)

Laura Blas
JAE-intro Fellowship / MSc Student (UB)

Roger López
PhD Student
(Former MSc Student)

Eric Toro
Coordinated PhD student with Vila's group (IBE)
(Former MSc Student)

Clara Cavalcanti
Erasmus+ Student (UB)
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Gemma Díaz
MSc Student (UB)

Joan Pere Pascual-Díaz
Data Analyst

Marrissa Miller
(Visiting PhD Student - Carleton University)

Former Members

Luise Gorki
Erasmus+ Student

Fulvia Benetello
Erasmus+ Student

Aleix Palahí
Predoctoral Researcher
(now PhD student at Uppsala University)

Henk Tol
MSc Student (UAB)

Laia Pérez-Sorribes
Lab technician
(Now PhD student at Doñana Biological Station, CSIC)

Megan Reich
Visitor PhD Student
(Now Postdoc at the University of Ottawa)

Natalia Parra
Erasmus+ Student
(University of Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany)

Johanna Berger
Erasmus+ Student

Mattia Menchetti
Research Assistant and MSc student
(now PhD student at IBE, CSIC)

Anna Janiczek
Erasmus+ Student
(now PhD student a W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Alessandra Lombardi
Citizen Science Manager & MSc Student
(Now PhD student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science)

Iu Vilaseca
JAE-CSIC Fellowship

Daria Shipilina
Coordinated Postdoc with Backström's group
(Uppsala University)

Danai Peraki
Erasmus+ Student
(Agricultural University of Athens)

Robert Wright
Erasmus+ Student

Arantza Garcia
Visiting student
(John Hopkins University)

Mireia Marrugat
Undergrad Student (UB)

Lana Sushko
MSc Student UAB
(Now PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biology - Tübingen)

Sana Ghouri
Coordinated MSc Student with Bataille's group
(University of Ottawa)

Iwona Bartyzel
Erasmus+ Student
(Avans University of Applied Sciences)

Hannes Gabel
Erasmus+ Student
(Visiting Student - University of Barcelona)

Collaborators

Tomasz Suchan
Polish Academy of Sciences

Roger Vila
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona

Maximilian Joesch
IST Austria

Marianne Espeland
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Bonn, Germany

Leonardo Dapporto
University of Florence

Jignasha Rana
George Washington University

Clément P Bataille
University of Ottawa

Cristina Domingo
CREAF

Vlad Dinca
Ouly University (Finland)

Xavier Espadaler
Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona

Sami Schar
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona

Víctor Soria-Carrasco
John Innes Centre, UK

Niclas Backström
Uppsala University

Naomi Pierce
Harvard University

Vladimir Lukhtanov
Russian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg State University

Nazar Shapoval
Russian Academy of Sciences

Lucas Kaminski
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Lukas Rieppel
Brown University

Join us

Also if you are interested to join a Masters or PhD program, just drop me an email, I am eager to help you to seek funding and develop your idea. I am broadly interested in migratory insects and their ecological implications for nature conservation. I mostly use genomic and ecological data to tackle questions on migration and dispersal patterns, population ecology and demography, the evolution of migration, spatial distributions of genetic diversity , speciation, species limits and systematics.