Alvaro Vetina is an MSc candidate at the University of Mpumalanga and a junior researcher at the University of Eduardo Mondlane and curator of invertebrates’ collections at the Natural History Museum of Maputo. He holds a BSc Honours in Marine, Aquatic and Coastal Biology from the University of Eduardo Mondlane. For his MSc, he is working on the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) African eels focusing on their ecology, recruitment, their socio-economic and other fishes into the Nkomati floodplain and estuary, in Mozambique. Alvaro has experience in environmental monitoring, fisheries studies, ecological studies on coastal, aquatic, and marine ecosystems, and taxonomy of marine and aquatic invertebrates and fishes. His career aim is to undertake more advanced ecological research and studies to better understand the impacts of multiple stressors on natural resource uses and their sustainable management.
