Rate My Professor Raquel L. Carvalho

Raquel Luiza de Carvalho is a professor in the Department of Zoology at the Instituto de Biociências of the Universidade de São Paulo. She also serves as an affiliated researcher at the University of Bristol and as Co-Chair of the Human Health and Ecosystem Management group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. She earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in 2014, a master's degree in entomology from the Universidade Federal de Lavras in 2016, and a doctorate in ecology and conservation of natural resources from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia in 2020, including a sandwich period at Charles Darwin University in Australia. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at Embrapa Amazônia Oriental in partnership with the University of Lancaster from 2020 to 2022 and at the Universidade de São Paulo with a sandwich period at the University of Glasgow from 2022 to 2025.

Her research centers on entomology applied to conservation, with emphasis on the natural history, ecological interactions, and diversity of dung beetles, ants, and culicids in natural and anthropogenic environments. She investigates the impacts of land-use changes, landscape modification, and climate on Scarabaeinae beetles and Formicidae, and more recently on disease vectors such as Aedes aegypti. She is a co-founder of the TAOCA database on terrestrial and aquatic Amazonian fauna and contributes to public policy development, including the Amazônia +10 Scientific Expeditions call and the São Paulo State Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan. Her work integrates field sampling, data synthesis, and dialogue between science and society, particularly with decision-makers and policymakers.

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