Hg-Planktarctic team
The Research Centers
MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre - is a Centre for research, technological development and innovation, with an integrative and holistic approach, concentrating a wide diversity of expertise, skills, and capabilities, with a nationwide territorial implementation, that develops its activities oriented to societal challenges, in close partnership with national and international research centres.
MARE combines expertise allowing approaching scientifically and technologically all types of aquatic systems, from river basins and associated landscapes, to estuaries, coastal and large marine ecosystems, the open-ocean and deep-sea, on a context of global and regional changes and cumulative anthropogenic impacts.
BioISI is a new institute established in January 2015, merging three former research centres (BioFIG,CFMC,LabMAg) and created to understand and address biological questions using integrative – Systems – approaches, at the forefront of life sciences research at both national and international scales.
By gathering scientists from bio-, physics and computational sciences, BioISI benefits from a unique multidisciplinary environment which (together with its core-facilities) is offered to its researchers and advanced students. To achieve its goal BioISI pursues 5 major missions:
1. Carry out forefront research on biosystems and integrative sciences
2. Drive research and progress through technology development and innovation
3. Train the next generation of scientific leaders on biosystems and integrative sciences
4. Provide research facilities and services to BioISI and external researchers
5. Take a major role in industry interactions and technology transfer of life science research
The mission of CESAM, an Associate Laboratory of the University of Aveiro, is to develop leading international research on the environment, with a special emphasis on the coastal and marine areas, with the aim of strongly contribute to the formulation and implementation of national and European strategies for sustainable development.
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Within the EU priorities and aligned with the commitment for an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth based on the knowledge and innovation, CESAM aim is to promote a more efficient use of terrestrial, coastal and marine (including deep-sea) environmental resources and a more competitive, resilient and sustainable economy, designed to endorse job creation and assuring the territorial and social cohesion.
CQE - Centro de Química Estrutural, a University oriented research centre, started in 1975 at Instituto Superior Técnico and it includes since 2015 members from Ciências. It covers a broad and interdisciplinary group of areas within the scope of Chemistry, performing experimental and theoretical, fundamental and oriented/applied research. It was one of the first research centres created in Portugal. Its Mission is to build-up scientific and technological skills contributing to the development of welfare of society by providing high quality Research, Development, Innovation and Teaching activities in different areas of Chemistry.
The Unit is open to the Research Community, University and Industry, by setting up definite goals both in fundamental and applied research. Its continuing role in providing state-of-the-art advanced training is regarded as an essential goal, in an environment where innovation and entrepreneurship are increasingly important objectives. Our dominant scientific research area is chemistry but we aim to promote an effective link between the core of chemical knowledge and process and product technology, the basis of chemical and allied industries. This core is built on what molecular sciences can do to improve the quality of products, the economic growth and welfare. CQE aims to concentrate its research in systems that have an impact on the current and near future needs of the society, namely in the areas of Chemistry and Energy, Sustainable (Green) Chemistry, including Catalysis, Medicinal Chemistry and Nanochemistry and Chemical Technology.
The team members
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Current interests: Effects of climate change and emerging and classical contaminants in marine phototrophs. Marine primary producers photobiology and ecophysiology under stress conditions. Climate change and pollution impacts on marine primary producers ecophysiology and on blue carbon biogeochemical cycling.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Current interests: Phytoplankton ecology and physiology under climate change and contamination scenarios, with particular emphasis on fatty acid profiling.
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Assistant Professor with Habilitation
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Current interests: Metal biogeochemistry and ecotoxicology in higher plants. Biomonitoring and Bioindicators of metal contamination in estuarine systems.
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Assistant Professor
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Current interests: Plant Lipids and Respiration; Plant Stress Physiology and Biochemistry; Plant Molecular Biology
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Assistant Professor with Habilitation
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Current research interests: Aquatic toxicology, with particular emphasis on the study of the effects of environmental contaminants on aquatic species, namely at the level of neuroendocrine mechanisms, antioxidant defense, biotransformation and genotoxic vs. anti-genotoxic processes.
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Associate Professor with Habilitation
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Current research interests: His research interests lie in the frontier between Ecology and Toxicology, including the ecological aspects of man-induced change. As a teacher, he has always devoted attention to Educational issues, particularly those related to Environmental Sustainability.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Current interests: Novel Approaches in Water Quality Evaluation in Lotic Ecossystems: Going beyond the WFD
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Current interests: Aquatic toxicology and environmental risk assessment, with particular emphasis on pesticide effects; development of environmentally friendlier alternatives to current pesticide formulations; ecotoxicological assessment of alternative solvents with industrial potential such as ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents; ecotoxicological assessment in extreme environments or following extreme events. Aquatic pest management and biorremediation of contaminated effluents are parallel research interests.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Current interests: Aquatic toxicology, with particular interest in metal toxico-kinetics in aquatic organisms, neuro-sensorial effects and toxicity mechanisms. Induction and reversibility of sensory systems disruption and behavior syndromes in fish following mercury exposure.
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Invited Assistant Professor
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Current interests: Environmental chemistry mainly in the fate and biogeochemistry of key pollutants in the environment. At the present time I'm at CQE of IST focusing my work in biogeochemical cycle of contaminants in Antarctica and in understanding the changes in contaminant, carbon and sulfur cycles in the Arctic melting permafrost due to climate warming. I'm also starting to look on the ecotoxicological effects of key pollutants input in the polar living organisms.
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