Ricardo Rocha is a conservation biologist from Portugal, with a specialization in tropical forests and island ecosystems. He is an Associate Professor in Conservation Science at Oxford University and became a National Geographic Explorer in 2020. His work is rooted in ecological theory and involves biodiversity surveys across large-scale experiments, real world working landscapes and island ecosystems. During his Ph.D., Rocha spent over two and a half years studying bat communities at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in the Central Amazon region of Brazil.
