Education

• 2009-2013 B.S., Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

• 2014 – 2016 M.S., Department of Oceanography, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

• 2020 – 2025 Ph.D., Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Professional Experience

• 2025 – Now Post-Doctoral Fellow, Marine Ecoacoustics and Informatics Lab, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2017 – 2020 Research Assistant, Marine Biodiversity Research Group, Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand

• 2016 – 2017 Field Researcher, Reef Conservation Project, Pernambuco, Brazil

Selected Publications

1. Mattos, F. M. G., Mulla, A. J., Denis, V., Lin, C.-H., Lin, T.-H., & Nozawa, Y. (2025). The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages. Ecology and Evolution, 15(11), e72443. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72443

2. Mattos, F. M. G., Mulla, A. J., Fong, C.-L., Lee, C.-H., Nozawa, Y., & Lin, T.-H. (2025). Environmental and acoustic drivers of fish recruitment along degraded coral reefs. Marine Environmental Research, 107461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107461

3. Mattos, F. M. G., Dreyer, N., Fong, C.-L., Wen, Y.-H. V., Jain, D., De Vivo, M., Huang, Y.-S., Mwihaki, J. K., Wang, T.-Y., Ho, M.-J., Tsai, I. J., Wang, J., Chan, B. K. K., & Machida, R. J. (2023). Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller-size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(3), e13911. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13911

4. Mattos, F. M. G., Yeemin, T., Sutthacheep, M., & Feitosa, J. L. L. (2023). Biogeographic and environmental drivers of reef fish diversity in coastal islands of the Gulf of Thailand. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 724, 33–46. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14447

5. Pereira, P. H. C., Côrtes, L. G. F., Lima, G. V., Gomes, E., Pontes, A. V. F., Mattos, F. M. G., Araújo, M. E., Ferreira-Junior, F., & Sampaio, C. L. S. (2021). Reef fishes biodiversity and conservation at the largest Brazilian coastal Marine Protected Area (MPA Costa dos Corais). Neotropical Ichthyology, 19(4), e210071. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2021-0071

6. Araújo, M. E. de, Mattos, F. M. G. de, Melo, F. P. L. de, Chaves, L. de C. T., Feitosa, C. V., Lippi, D. L., Félix Hackradt, F. C., Hackradt, C. W., Nunes, J. L. S., Leão, Z. M. de A. N., Kikuchi, R. K. P. de, Ferreira Junior, A. V., Pereira, P. H. C., Macedo, C. H. R., Sampaio, C. L. S., & Feitosa, J. L. L. (2020). Diversity patterns of reef fish along the Brazilian tropical coast. Marine Environmental Research, 160, 105038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105038

7. Araújo, M., Mattos, F. M. G., Feitosa, C. V., Lippi, D. L., & Teixeira, S. (2018). Histórico do conhecimento dos peixes ósseos. In M. Araújo, S. M. G. de Mattos, & C. Feitosa (Eds.), Ecologia de peixes recifais em Pernambuco (pp. 189–224). Editora UFPE.

8.   Mattos, F. M. G., & Yeemin, T. (2018). Worldwide recreational fish feeding: A review on ecological impacts. Ramkhamhaeng International Journal of Science and Technology, 1(1), Article