Luísa Azevedo

Born in Belo Horizonte/Brazil in 1994.

Luísa Azevedo is a plant ecologist and researcher working at the intersection of science, art, and communication. She studied biology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte (2013–2018), where she is currently completing her Ph.D..

Her work explores plant-rock interactions with a focus on macroecological patterns and the processes shaping biodiversity in rocky ecosystems. Her expertise includes floristic inventories, plant identification, biogeography, remote sensing, and functional traits. Through both research and creative practices, she seeks to highlight rocks as seeds for biodiversity and potential hope spots in the Anthropocene.

Her research focuses on macroecological patterns and the processes driving biodiversity in rocky ecosystems. Azevedo’s ultimate goal is to inspire people to see rocks as seeds to biodiversity conservation, a source of hope in the Anthropocene.

She participated in the book Missing Words for Considering Stones, Rocks, Pebbles and Mountains: A Vocabulary of Proximity (edited by Mabe Bethônico, Biennale Architettura, Venice, 2021) and is a member of Phonocoria, a band combining jazz, science, and the arts of biodiversity.

Azevedo has received scholarships through the Young Talents for Science program and various research grants. In 2024, she received an award from the Journal of Systematics and Evolution for her article On the rocks: Biogeography and floristic identity of rocky ecosystems in eastern South America.