Outreach
An important part of the scientific environment should be to disseminate novel results not only to field specialists but to the general public. In this section, I briefly write about my own publications trying to use non-technical language, hoping to eventually get science closer to people.
Recent posts
New Xylella fastidiosa outbreak detected in Portugal
A new Xylella fastidiosa outbreak has been detected in Portugal. What can our recently developed model say about it?
Global predictions for the risk of establishment of Pierce’s disease of grapevines
We develop a temperature-driven dynamic epidemiological model to infer the risk of Pierce’s disease in different wine-growing regions worldwide.
Modelling parasite-produced marine diseases - The case of the mass mortality event of Pinna nobilis
In this work, we develop a mathematical model to describe parasite produced marine diseases of immobile hosts and apply it to the particular case of the Mass...