ECR Spotlight – Derek Campos

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Derek Campos is an author on ‘ Effects of oxygen level on thermal tolerance in Amazonian catfishes with bimodal respiration: physiological and behavioural changes’, published in JEB. Derek conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Adalberto Luis Val's lab at the National Institute for Amazonian Research, Brazil. Derek is now a postdoc in the lab of Kênia Cardoso Bícego at São Paulo State University, Brazil, investigating thermal adaptation, physiology and biochemistry, exploring how organisms respond to environmental challenges.