Larissa de Oliveira

Dr. Oliveira has a degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (1996), master in bioscience (Zoology) from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río Grande do Sul (1999) and PhD in Biological Sciences (Genetics) Universidad de São Paulo (2004). She is a member of the Study Group of Marine Mammals of Rio Grande do Sul (GEMARS) Since 1994, researcher in the -Southern elephant seals Project (PEMS) in Antarctica since 1998, and contributor to the Center for Environmental Sustainability (CSA) at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru, the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK and the Centre for Genomic Biology PUCRS. Larissa was awarded the prize for young geneticist by the Brazilian Society of Genetics (2007) and awarded the prize for Animal Conservation Society of Conservation Biology (2009). Since 1994 she has been studying marine mammals, with emphasis in the area of conservation biology. She is currently a research professor in the Graduate Program in Biology at the University of Valle del Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Larissa collaborates with the Punta San Juan Project by investigating population genetics of two species of resident pinnipeds, with a special interest in the South American fur seal, on which she wrote her doctoral thesis.