Rate My Professor Flávio Alicino Bockmann

Flávio Alicino Bockmann is Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP) of the Universidade de São Paulo. He earned his bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Universidade Santa Úrsula between 1987 and 1990. He completed his PhD in Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) at the Universidade de São Paulo in 1998, with the thesis titled “Análise Filogenética da família Heptapteridae (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Siluriformes) e redefinição de seus gêneros,” supervised by Heraldo Antonio Britski and supported by FAPESP. In 1993, he was a Short Term Visitor at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, under the supervision of Richard Peter Vari. He undertook postdoctoral research at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro from 1999 to 2000, funded by FAPERJ, and obtained his livre-docência at FFCLRP/USP in 2011 with the work “Evolução e Sistemática Filogenética: uma Perspectiva da Morfologia Comparada.”