Juliana C. Jardim Barbosa is a Brazilian botanist and is a pre-PhD student in my group. She works on understanding how genome size and polyploidy shapes trait evolution and diversification in Rosids. 

Juliana holds a Master’s degree in Plant Biodiversity and Environment from the Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais (São Paulo, Brazil), where she studied species boundaries and ecological variation in Brazilian Magnolia species using fieldwork and herbarium studies in Brazil and abroad. Her background is in plant systematics and biodiversity research, with experience in taxonomic data curation, geometric morphometric and species distribution analyses.