Pamela González del Pliego is a scientist focusing in conservation issues with a passion for using quantitative tools to understand the drivers of biodiversity loss and create strategies to mitigate that loss. She is currently a Researcher at the University of Évora working ona global strategy for conservation and restoration areas. Before this she was a Postdoc at the same institution working with invasive species and trying to understand their geographical distribution. Before joining the Universidade de Évora she was a postdoctoral ecologist at the Center for Biodiversity and Global Change at Yale University. She completed a PhD in ecology and conservation in 2018 at The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, a Masters in Applied Ecology in 2013 at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom (as well as Universite de Poitiers, France and Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) and a Bachelor in Biology in 2009 at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. She has published >10 articles in refereed scientific journals (4 of which have an impact factor higher than 10), and has been interviewed by the BBC, the ABC, The times, and National Geographic.