New Co-ordinating Editor in Plant-Pollinator Interactions
Submitted by editor on 4 July 2024.
NJB would like to welcome our new Co-ordinating Editor in plant-pollinator interactions, Simone Cappellari Rabeling! We are looking forward to having Simone on board! See below a description of her research background:
I am a Brazilian scholar and DAAD scholarship recipient who received a Master’s degree in Zoology from the University of Tübingen in Germany (2003) and a PhD in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior from The University of Texas at Austin (2011). I held two postdoctoral positions, at the Harvard University Herbaria and the University of Rochester, which included two maternity leave periods, before being hired in 2017, as a Research Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. In 2022, I returned to Germany to accept a position as a Principal Investigator in the Department of Plant Evolutionary Biology (https://peb.uni-hohenheim.de/en/scr). My main research interests are community and niche ecology of plant-pollinator interactions, tropical plant breeding systems, specialized pollination systems, as well as pollinator foraging ecology. I have studied plant-pollinator community structure and dynamics as well as pollination niche ecology of closely related species. Throughout my career, I have accumulated field work experience in many different habitats, including the Brazilian coastal Rainforest, the Araucaria forest, the Cerrado, the Caatinga, the deserts of Southwestern United States, the subtropical forests of Vanuatu and, more recently, the Mediterranean coastal vegetation in Italy.