About
My research is driven by a central question: how do continental ecosystems respond to extreme environmental change?
I focus on the evolution of land ecosystems in western Gondwana during the Permian and Triassic—a time marked by the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history and the subsequent recovery that reshaped life on land. My work integrates paleobiology, paleoecology, and taphonomy to understand how plants and animals responded to environmental stress, how ecosystems collapsed and recovered, and how these changes are recorded in the fossil record.
A key part of my research explores rift-related lake systems, where sediments, fossils, and footprints preserve exceptionally detailed archives of ancient climates and environments. I study the taphonomy of vertebrate remains and tetrapod footprints to decode how animals lived, moved, and interacted with their surroundings.
By combining fossils, sedimentary records, and geochemical data, my goal is to reconstruct past climates and understand how climate change shaped the evolution of life on land—insights essential for interpreting Earth’s deep past and its future.
Joined
December 2025
