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Maria Dornelas, FRSE is an ecologist and reader in the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the quantification of biodiversity and macroecology. She is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of the scientific journal, Global Ecology and Biogeography. In March 2021, Dornelas was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Research and career
Dornelas grew up in Lisbon and completed a BSc. at Universidade de Lisboa. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2006 at James Cook University, demonstrated that the unified neutral theory of biodiversity fails to explain patterns of diversity seen in coral reefs.