Dr Ceres Barros, Research Scientist (CFS)
Ceres has a strong passion for understanding and predicting ecosystem resilience to multiple disturbances. She has experience using complex ecological simulation models to explore fundamental and applied questions related to ecosystem stability to climate change, drought, fire, land-use changes and permafrost thaw. Her research is also strongly focused on the development of integrated, reusable and transparent modelling workflows that can be used not only for research purposes, but also to support and inform end-users within and beyond government.
She earned her BSc in Biology from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an MSc in Ecology and Environmental Sustainability from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She later obtained her PhD in Biodiversity, Ecology and Environment from the University of Grenoble Alps, France, and was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate at the the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
After spending some time as Climate Change Research Ecologist at the FFEC, Ceres took a Research Scientist position at the Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and at Université Laval, is on the British Ecological Society Macroecology SIG committee and on the Response Diversity Network committee, and is an Associate Editor for Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
