I am currently a PhD student at the British Antarctic Survey/Department of Zoology (University of Cambridge) and completed both my undergrad (Biological Sciences) and master’s (in Zoology) at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Research interests

My studies mainly focus on the taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, phylogeography and ecophysiology of insects (mostly Neotropical). Climate change (and climate science as whole) is another important interest.

1         Simões, F.L., Ferrari, A., Grazia, J. (2012) Is Elsiella Froeschner, 1981 a valid genus? (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatomini). Zootaxa (Online), 3238, 39-48.
2         Ferrari, A., Barão, K.R., Simões, F.L. (2013) Quantitative panbiogeography: was the congruence problem solved?. Systematics and Biodiversity (Print), 11, 285-302.
3         Pessi, I.S., Osorio-Forero, C., Galvez, E.J.C., Simões, F.L., Simões, J.C., Junca, H., Macedo, A.J. (2014) Distinct composition signatures of archaeal and bacterial phylotypes in the Wanda Glacier forefield, Antarctic Peninsula. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2014, 1.
4         Simões, F.L., Campos, L.A. (2014) Taxonomic notes on Ochlerus: revisiting Herrich-Schäffer’s species (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae: Ochlerini). Zootaxa (Auckland. Print), 3774, 496-500.
5         Simões, F.L., Campos, L.A. (2015) Breddin’s types of Ochlerus (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae). Contributions to Entomology, 65(2), 213-222.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

1. Sub-Antarctic Ice Coring Expedition (SubICE)

   SUBICE, the Sub-Antarctic – ice coring expedition, part of the international Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), successfully drilled several shallow ice cores, from five of the remote and globally significant sub-Antarctic islands.

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