Photo (c) Runa Paan
I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley in the Razafindratsima lab.
I am a Malagasy researcher investigating the ecology of animals in tropical forest ecosystems. My interests include but are not limited to their responses to disturbances, habitat preference, seed dispersal roles, and conservation.
I have used the mouse lemurs (Microcebus) in Madagascar’s rainforests as model systems.
I am currently looking for Postdoctoral opportunities.
Project Members
I am working closely with students from the Mention Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale at the Université d’Antananarivo. I am mentoring them in various aspects of research design, data collection and analysis, field activity coordination, funding proposal writing, publication preparation, and public outreach of my research projects.
Local community are also full part of my projects as we continuously conduct research in their forests. They are involved in implementation, communication, data collection, and risk assessment during fieldwork.
Outreach
Local community are always part of my research projects. We share our experience and knowledge to each other for the good of the community and the project. Additionally, I share my results with them to value their traditional knowledge in my work and formulate conservation recommendations that are equitable to them.
I also produce deliverables based on scientific research to inform the public.
I also provide an Extended Abstract in Malagasy to all papers I led and co-authored.
Veronarindra Ramananjato 