Dr Alejandra Vovides

Career history:

Studied biology in Mexico, and moved on to a PhD study in ecology and natural resources management., where I started studying biogeochemical processes in mangrove wetlands After the PhD studies, I spent a couple of years getting involved with sustainable development and environmental education, before moving to Germany for a postdoctoral research stay that rendered four peer reviewed articles about mangrove forest community dynamics, functional ecology, interaction modelling with an overall framework on environmental change. Since 2018 I joined the University of Glasgow as a Research Associate and work now with biogeomorphological processes in mangroves of south east Asia, with a focus of morphological plasticity of seedlings and their responses to hydrodynamic forcing during establishment. Also, in collaboration with the Technische Universitaet Dresde, Mendel University in Brno and the Institute of Ecology (in Mexico), along with The university of Glasgow, we have started a Volkswagaen-Foundation financed project to study the ecological implications of root grafting in mangrove forests, with a focus on complex networks dynamics and water resource sharing that might ameliorate saline stress.