MPhil

Giant sloth illustration

In the last four years, I have been working on understanding how the climatic and environmental effect the diversity of eutherian terrestrial mammals in South America during the Cenozoic.

This project started as a PhD, based in University College London & Natural History Museum of London, and funded by the Royal Society of Science. However, after reconsideration of my motivations & mental health, it will end up as an MPhil (viva is in May).

Throughout my MPhil, I prepared a variety of illustrations that I used in my slides, posters, talks, figures and more during my academic career.

gif illustration of slide showing climate change and rise in sea level and polar bear
illustration gif of slide showing the latitudinal biodiversity gradient of south american mammals.
gif image showing the fossil biases: environmental, biological, geological and human biases

You can watch my Pal(a)eoPERCS talk (14/02/2023) to learn more about my research and decision to leave academia.

I designed the figures for my MPhil thesis.

Figure showing important palaeo-environmental & biotic events taking place in South America
Figure showing raw counts of fossil occurrences, localities, references and others throughout the Cenozoic
Figure showing phylogenetic relationships of South American eutherian mammals
Figure showing South American eutherian diversity by latitude, throughout the Cenozoic
Figure showing diversity & diversification patterns of eutherian mammals throughout the Cenozoic of South America
Figure showing palaeo-environmental & climatic events of the Cenozoic