I am a vertebrate paleontologist and postdoctoral research fellow working in the DAEDALUS research group at CERENA. My research concerns the inner ear and its relationship to body temperature and motion detection. I am also involved with the group, DinoDawn, which focuses on Triassic fossils from the Algarve region of Portugal. My PhD work concerned the paleobiology and phylogeny of plesiosaurs and I have since expanded this scope to now include multiple groups of vertebrates, from fish, to reptiles, and mammal relatives.