About Me

I am a biologist interested primarily in macroecology and macroevolution, aiming to understand how biodiversity, especially fish diversity, is assembled through time and across space.

Currently, as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern and Wyss Academy, I am working on the project “Stopping biodiversity loss in waterbodies despite climate change.” This project combines fundamental biodiversity research, using innovative species distribution modelling, with applied conservation to protect Switzerland’s freshwater biodiversity by identifying priority areas for conservation and restoration. Overall, my overarching goal in this project is to help develop evidence-based strategies to improve aquatic biodiversity management across Switzerland.

   

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Curriculum
Vitae

2025-present

 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bern & Wyss Academy for Nature

2023-2025

 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Groningen & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, NL
2020–2023 Postdoctoral researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Kastanienbaum & Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
2019 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva: Juan Montoya's research group
2014–2019 PhD in Ecology and Evolution, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva; Juan Montoya's research group. Thesis title: Historical factors, environmental heterogeneity and genomic changes as drivers of fish diversification in the Neotropics
2012–2013 Research internship, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva; Juan Montoya's research group
2009–2010 Project leader and consultant, consortium among Santo Antônio Energia, Fundação Rio Madeira, and Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil
2007–2009 MSc in Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries, National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Brazil; Lucia Rapp-Py-Daniel's research group
2003–2006 BSc in Biology, Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil

Publications

Anjos MS, Jardim de Queiroz L, et al. 2021. A taxonomically complex catfish group from an underrepresented geographic area: Systematics and species limits in Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from Eastern South America. J Zool Syst Evol Res, https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12572.

Cardoso YP*, Jardim de Queiroz L*, et al. 2021. Multilocus phylogeny and historical biogeography of Hypostomus shed light on the processes of fish diversification in La Plata Basin. Scientific Reports, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83464-x. (*Equal contribution)

Jardim de Queiroz L, et al. 2020. Evolutionary units delimitation and continental multilocus phylogeny of the hyperdiverse catfish genus Hypostomus. Mol. Phyl. Evol., doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106711.

Briñoccoli Y, Jardim de Queiroz L, et al. 2020. Processes that drive the population structuring of Jenynsia lineata (Cyprinidontiformes, Anablepidae) in the La Plata Basin. Authorea Preprints, 10.22541/au.160102640.01382080. (Accepted for publication in Ecology and Evolution)

Jézéquel C, et al, including Jardim de Queiroz L. 2020. A database of freshwater fish species of the Amazon Basin. Scientific Data, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0436-4.

Jardim de Queiroz L, et al. 2017. Multifactorial genetic divergence processes drive the onset of speciation in an Amazonian fish. Plos One, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189349.