2017 - present: Post-doc at NIOO-KNAW. Impacts of carrying devices on passerine flight performance with Henk van der Jeugd.
2017: Visiting researcher at Experimental Zoology Group (WUR). Effects of moult on flight performance in a long-distance migrant with Florian Muijres.
2013 - 2016: PhD at NIOO-KNAW and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (cum laude). Climate change and avian annual temporal organization with Prof. Marcel E. Visser and Prof. Domien Beersma.
2012: Volunteer at the ornithological collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) with Prof. Luís Fábio Silveira
2009 - 2011: MSc student in General Physiology at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). Aftereffects of entrainment and the activity phase of the subterranean rodent tuco-tuco (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) with Prof. Gisele Akemi Oda and Verónica Sandra Valentinuzzi.
2008 - 2009: Licenciate student in Biology at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2004 - 2008: Bachelor student in Biological Sciences at Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil). Project title: Distribution and taxonomy of Crypturellus noctivagus (Wied, 1820) (Tinamiformes: Tinamidae) based on morphological characters with Prof. Luís Fábio Silveira.
Tomotani, B. M., van der Jeugd, H. P., Gienapp, P., De la Hera, I., Pilzecker, J., Teichmann, C., & Visser, M. E. (2018). Climate change leads to differential shifts in the timing of annual cycle stages in a migratory bird. Global Change Biology, 24(2), 823-835. doi:10.1111/gcb.14006
Tomotani, B. M., Muijres, F. T., Koelman, J., Casagrande, S., & Visser, M. E. (2018). Simulated moult reduces flight performance but overlap with breeding does not affect breeding success in a long-distance migrant. Functional Ecology, 32(2), 389-401. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12974
Tomotani, B. M., Gienapp, P., Beersma, D. G. M., & Visser, M. E. (2016). Climate change relaxes the time constraints for late-born offspring in a long-distance migrant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 283(1839). doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1366