My research interests lie in two major areas: (i) prospection of bioactive molecules from natural sources and (ii) comparative and integrative animal physiology, ranging from biochemical adaptations to ecological and environmental physiology. My research projects investigate the modulation of antioxidant systems in animals exposed to oxygen deprivation and during other situations of metabolic depression in the laboratory and in the wild. More recently and concurrently, I am also working on the prospection of bioactive compounds (e.g. anuran secretion peptides) for health and environmental applications.