My research explores the specialized metabolism of tropical plant groups through multidisciplinary approaches involving eco-metabolomics, natural products chemistry, chemometrics, systematics and gene expression. I am particularly interested in studying the evolutionary origins, environmental regulatory factors, adaptive roles and distribution patterns of specialized metabolites, ultimately to increase our understanding of the processes that generate and maintain plant chemical diversity and its relationship with the diversification of lineages. I am also interested in the application of the current state-of-the-art dereplication strategies for the identification of natural products in complex plant extracts using mass spectrometry and bioinformatic tools.