PhD Students
Anastasios "Tasos" Limnios
Tasos is a Biologist and herpetologist specializing in the ecology, behaviour, and environmental niche modelling of reptiles and amphibians. He has worked on how climate change affects functional traits and extinction risks. Currently, he is pursuing a fully funded PhD in Portugal (CIBIO) with the FBIO group, focusing on the synergistic impacts of climate change and pesticides on lizards.
Past Students
Urban Dajčman
PhD Student
Urban did his PhD in the (National Institute of Biology, Liubljana, Slovenia) and he focused on the coexistence mechanisms of lizard species under the pressures of climate change and habitat loss. To that end, he used DNA metabarcoding, parasite identification and mechanistic niche modeling (biophysical and Dynamic Energy Budget models).
Carolina Reyes-Puig
PhD Student
Carolina recently completed her Ph.D. in Biodiversity, Genetics, and Evolution at the University of Porto, building upon a strong academic foundation from institutions in Ecuador. Her doctoral research integrated experimental work, phylogenetic comparative studies, and mechanistic models to integrate key functional traits measured in the lab, with the aim to unravel the mechanisms to allow the coexistence in green lizards of the genus Timon and Lacerta.
Katerina Sioumpoura
Master Student
Katerina studied activity patterns, habitat use, and the influence of body size in those biological rates in individuals of Timon lepidus using a combination of biologing of individuals in mesocosms, and finally tuned mechanistic (biophysical) models. She used all that information to study the physiology of free-ranging lizards and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change at fine resolution and the individual level.