My research interest is to understand how human-induced selection of phenotypes of tuskless female elephants influences the behaviours that help to regulate ecological processes and ecosystem functioning. This will have broader impacts for understanding the hidden consequences of human activity on biodiversity by addressing fundamental and interlinked questions at the interface of ecology, evolution, and policy. Besides that, I manage the Elephant Ecology Project (EEP) in Gorongosa National Park (GNP) in Mozambique, and my work is a blend of elephant ecology, behaviour and human elephant interactions. On that, I am interested on the impacts of the recovering elephant population on the elephant social dynamics, on the park’s habitats and on human elephant conflict and coexistence dynamics.

Before joining the Drongos and the EEB, I did my Ph.D. in biodiversity management and an M.Sc. in conservation biology at the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) in the UK, and a B.Sc. in ecology and conservation of terrestrial biodiversity from the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique.