Bernardo Santos

Bernardo F. Santos is a researcher focused on the biodiversity and evolution of insects. After doing his initial training and research in Brazil, he has worked on some of the top natural history museums in the world – New York, Washington, Paris – before landing at the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, where he combines genomics, DNA barcoding, morphology and statistical techniques to understand global patterns of insect biodiversity, with a focus on parasitoid wasps, a hyperdiverse but underappreciated animal lineage.