Rodolfo Jaffé is an ecologist with over ten years of biodiversity research and consulting experience, working in academic institutions around the globe, a major mining company, and international consulting firms. He relies on inter-disciplinary approaches to assess how the alteration of natural habitats influences biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services. Rodolfo has experience implementing the mitigation hierarchy (avoid, minimize, rectify, and compensate) to manage business impacts to biodiversity and ecosystem services, providing litigation support in Natural Resource Damage Assessments, undertaking ecological risk and impact assessments, and working with threatened and endangered species. His work is grounded in data science, heavily relying on the curation and integration of large datasets, data analytics and visualizations, spatial analyses, genetics and genomics, modelling, statistics, and machine learning. He has biodiversity-related fieldwork experience in South and Central America, Europe, Africa, and Australia, and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Rodolfo has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and serves as Academic Editor for the scientific journals PeerJ and Ecological Applications.