Eduardo
Arlé

Dr. Eduardo Arlé is an Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellow in the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Belmaker.

His primary areas of research are invasion biology and nature conservation, but his interests extend to method development and programming.

Hundreds of species have migrated from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, establishing alien populations that can disturb the local environment. Understanding the dynamics driving biological invasions is crucial for controlling the spread of species already established and preventing the future introduction of new alien species. However, the methods currently available for predicting species distribution have severe limitations. Eduardo’s research uses the Mediterranean as a case study for developing new methods, best practices, and computational tools to advance invasion biology research and management.

Eduardo was born in Rio de Janeiro and has had a strong interest in observing and understanding nature since childhood. After obtaining a BA in international relations, he felt more drawn to biology and went on to complete a BSc in biological sciences and an MSc in neotropical biodiversity at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He pursued his PhD at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, under the supervision of Dr. Carsten Meyer, where he worked on improving knowledge of alien species distribution by integrating data across scales. Apart from science, Eduardo enjoys travelling, learning languages, cooking, and eating delicious food