Dr Ricardo Martinez Garcia

I am broadly interested in understanding and quantifying how individuals individual behaviors within their local environment scale to higher levels of ecological organization and shape population, community, and ecosystem-level processes. Among those, I am particularly interested in emergent spatiotemporal patterns and how these drive ecological and evolutionary outcomes, including population abundances, species distributions, and ecosystem resilience. In 2023, I was awarded one of the Junior Scientific Awards of the CSS.

I am a group leader at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding within the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (CASUS-HZDR), where I lead the Dynamics of Complex Living Systems Young Investigator Group. Between 2019 and 2022, the group was hosted by the ICTP-South American Institute for Fundamental Research (São Paulo, Brazil). 

Previously, I was a Life Sciences Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Corina Tarnita at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, and I obtained my PhD in Physics at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).