Micael is the resident Entomologist whose work centers on something most people walk past without a second thought — butterflies in urban parks. He specializes in the diversity of butterfly populations in urban green spaces, exploring how these delicate species navigate and survive in increasingly human-dominated landscapes. He pioneered functional ecology research among lepidopterans in the Philippines — a genuinely groundbreaking move that shifts the conversation from simply counting butterfly species to understanding what role they actually play in their ecosystems. His work asks harder, more important questions about how urban butterfly communities function, adapt, and what their presence (or absence) tells us about environmental health. With a research focus that sits at the crossroads of urban ecology, conservation biology, and entomology, Micael is building a body of work that is as relevant to city planners and conservationists as it is to the scientific community. He is quietly reshaping how the Philippines approaches insect ecology — one butterfly at a time.