I am most interested in understanding the different forces determining the structure and diversity of species-rich plant communities. Currently, I am a post-doctoral associate in the Chazdon lab, at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on successional pathways in neotropical secondary forests. My dissertation project was carried out in a pristine tropical forest of French Guiana, where I established a Regeneration Monitoring System in order to elucidate the importance of the regeneration phase in species coexistence.