Hello! Welcome to our lab page. In September 2025, we moved to the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. We will keep a presence at the Gulbenkian Institute for the next couple of years to finish current projects but are only recruiting at Monash University. See the Join us page for more info.
What do we do?
We study how ecological communities form and function. Specifically, we try to understand how species interactions and environmental conditions influence energy use and growth at different biological scales. This is not only conceptually interesting to understand the world around us, but also important to anticipate how ecosystems will respond to environmental changes. Visit our Research page for more info!
We study how ecological communities form and function. Specifically, we try to understand how species interactions and environmental conditions influence energy use and growth at different biological scales. This is not only conceptually interesting to understand the world around us, but also important to anticipate how ecosystems will respond to environmental changes. Visit our Research page for more info!
The Functional Ecology lab in September 2024.
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One of our study species, the microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta. Credit: Moritz Klaassen (2023).
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NEWS
December 2025
Anna Lena (postdoc) presents her work on community stability at the BES annual meeting in Edinburgh (Dec) in the thematic session "Insurance in ecosystems: exploring the role of response diversity across scales". Don't miss it!
October & November 2025
Giulia presents at the Australasian Evolution Conference in Brisbane (Oct) and at the ESA conference in Adelaide (Nov).
September 2025
The lab officially started at Monash University!
July 2025
Charlotte and Aurora's paper on how evolution with competitors affects community assembly and productivity has been published in Proceedings B! Find it here https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1146
March 2025
Daniela is presenting the first results of her PhD at the Marine Microbial Chemical Communication conference in the Netherlands.
Giulia is giving a talk at the IGB Institute of Freshwater Ecology in Berlin.
February 2025
Simas Jasiunas joins the lab for a master internship!
Charlotte's paper testing how species evolve in response to competition has been accepted in Ecology & Evolution (Briddon et al. 2025) - graphical abstract below.
Anna Lena (postdoc) presents her work on community stability at the BES annual meeting in Edinburgh (Dec) in the thematic session "Insurance in ecosystems: exploring the role of response diversity across scales". Don't miss it!
October & November 2025
Giulia presents at the Australasian Evolution Conference in Brisbane (Oct) and at the ESA conference in Adelaide (Nov).
September 2025
The lab officially started at Monash University!
July 2025
Charlotte and Aurora's paper on how evolution with competitors affects community assembly and productivity has been published in Proceedings B! Find it here https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1146
March 2025
Daniela is presenting the first results of her PhD at the Marine Microbial Chemical Communication conference in the Netherlands.
Giulia is giving a talk at the IGB Institute of Freshwater Ecology in Berlin.
February 2025
Simas Jasiunas joins the lab for a master internship!
Charlotte's paper testing how species evolve in response to competition has been accepted in Ecology & Evolution (Briddon et al. 2025) - graphical abstract below.
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