André C. Guaraldo is a professor at the Zoology Department at UFPR since 2022 (between 2019 and 2022, professor at the Department of Zoology of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora). He is a biologist graduated at UNESP Rio Claro, where he gained experience with reproduction, migration and ecology of birds (thanks to his friend Carlos Otávio Araújo Gussoni), as well as frugivory and seed dispersal. He has a PhD in Ecology from the University of Brasilia (UnB). In 2014 he developed a postdoctoral project (PDJ) in the laboratory of Dr. Regina Macedo (UnB) and between the late 2014 and early 2019 he was a postdoctoral fellow (PNPD) in PPG Ecology and Conservation at UFPR. 

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 In Ornithology, he has experience with traditional techniques (e.g.: observations, captures, acoustic and visual censuses of populations, ring marking, nest monitoring, biological sample collection, taxidermy) and the use of more specific methods and more recent technologies (e.g.: stable isotope analysis and use of geolocators). He has fluency in sampling and experimental design and linear and circular univariate data analysis.