Fonti is a PhD candidate at the Ecology and Evolution Research Center at The University of New South Wales. She is interested in contribution of nature and nurture on how animals respond to stressors such as climate change. She uses experimental, comparative and meta-analytic techniques to address questions about how complex adaptations evolve across different species. Fonti is also passionate about R coding, data hacking and number crunching and enjoys promoting equality and diversity in STEMM fields.