Francesco Belluardo

I am a herpetologist and evolutionary biologist with a strong background in the study of Madagascar’s herpetofauna. I completed a PhD in 2021 at CIBIO, BIOPOLIS, and the University of Porto in the BIOEVOL group with the thesis ‘Studying systematics and within-island diversification to unveil the evolution of Madagascar’s biodiversity’, and I have been a Postdoctoral researcher in the same group. In my research activities, I addressed various questions on the processes underlying the diversification of the exceptionally rich Malagasy biodiversity using multiple tools and approaches: biodiversity cataloguing, DNA Barcoding, systematics, taxonomy, biogeography and macroevolution. I am currently collaborating on various research projects within the BIOEVOL group.