Freitas, B; Milá, B; Thébaud, C; Janicke, T. The acoustic adaptation hypothesis across terrestrial vertebrates: a meta-analysis. International Bioacoustics Congress, 7-12 September 2025, Kerteminde, Denmark. Invited speaker for the “Vocal frequencies: The role of environmental and organismal factors in shaping animal acoustic signals” symposium

Freitas, B; Gil, D; Thébaud, C; Milá, B. The role of song in population divergence: Insights from the La Palma’s Canary Islands Chaffinch. ESEB Conference , 17-22 August 2025, Barcelona, Spain. Oral presentation

Freitas, B; Bacquele, Q; Gabrielli, M; Theunissen, F; Mathevon, N; Milá, B; Thébaud, C. Vocal divergence and incipient speciation in the Reunion Grey White-eye. ESEB Conference , 17-22 August 2025, Barcelona, Spain. Poster presentation

Freitas, B; Gil, D; Thébaud, C; Milá, B. Does song act as a behavioural barrier to gene flow? Evidence from divergent populations of La Palma’s Canary Islands Chaffinch. XX ENBE Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Evolutionary Biology, 19-20 December 2024, Vila do Conde, Portugal. Oral presentation

Freitas, B; Milá, B; Thébaud, C; Janicke, T. The acoustic adaptation hypothesis across animals: a meta-analysis. Behaviour 2023, 14-20 August 2023, Bielefeld, Germany. Oral presentation

Freitas, B; Gil, D; Thébaud, C; Milá, B. The role of song in restricting gene flow among locally adapted populations of the Common Chaffinch on the island of La Palma. 4th Society of Island Biology Conference, 2-7 July 2023, Lipari, Italy. Oral presentation

Freitas, B. Evolución del canto y su papel en la especiación de las aves insulares. VIII Jornadas de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, 4 March 2023, Salamanca, Spain. Invited oral presentation

Freitas, B. Evolution of song and its role in bird speciation: practical cases from island birds. Tropical Ecology Online organized by the Society for Tropical Ecology, 13 February 2023. Invited oral [online] presentation

Freitas, B; Gil, D; Thébaud, C; Milá, B. The roles of environment and behavior in the evolution of song in the Common Chaffinch on an oceanic island. 25th Spanish Congress of Ornithology, 9-13 November 2022, Menorca, Spain. Poster presentation

Freitas, B; Thébaud, C; Milá, B. Evolution of birdsong in mainland and insular populations of the Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs). SESBE VIII Conference, 2-4 February 2022, Vigo, Spain. Poster presentation

Freitas, B; Melo, M; Doutrelant, C; Robert, A; Bas, Y. The use of automatic recorders and automated detection to obtain vocalizations data in difficult terrains: the case of the Príncipe scops owl. BES Conservation Ecology & Tropical Ecology Joint Twitter Conference (#TropiCon20), 5-6 November 2020. Twitter presentation

Freitas, B; Melo, M; Doutrelant, C; Robert, A; Bas, Y. The use of automatic recorders and automated detection to obtain vocalizations data in difficult terrains: the case of the Príncipe scops owl. 2nd African Bioacoustics Community Conference, 2-5 November 2020. Oral [online] presentation

Freitas, B; Melo, M. The mystery Scops owl of Príncipe Island. National Geographic Grants Seminar, 30 April 2019, Porto, Portugal. Invited oral presentation

Freitas, B; Rodrigues, T M; Múrias, T; Gonçalves, D. Habitat use by waterbirds in the lower Douro estuary. IJUP, 7-9 February 2018, Porto, Portugal. Poster presentation

2022
MSc student: Andrea Lirola, Menendez Pelayo International University, Spain
Thesis title: Patterns of daily activity and abundance associated with the habitat of three species of passerines on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands
Co-supervised with Borja Milá

2021
Internship student: Javier Gutiérrez, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Project title: Bioacoustic analysis of island bird songs
Co-supervised with Borja Milá

Journals
Reviewer for Bioacoustics, Biotropica, Ecography, F1000Research, The Journal of Raptor Research, and Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics

Grants
2023 - External reviewer for the National Geographic Society Level I Grants (areas of Conservation, Research, and Technology)