Vítor Manuel Oliveira Silva

Vítor Silva is currently responsible for the team working in the Outreach and Community Relations Office, and he is also PhD student in Science Education and Dissemination; he has a Biology and Geology degree (2004) with a specialisation in Geology for Teaching. From 2017 to 2021, he served as a member of the General Council […]

Pedro Medeiros Silva

Pedro Silva graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) in Bioengineering in 2022. Currently, he is in his first year of a master’s degree in Biological Engineering at the same faculty. At CNP, he is working on cyclic depsipeptides in cyanobacteria. The main objective of his work is to develop […]

Patrícia Sofia Laranjeira Anacleto

Patrícia Anacleto graduated in Marine Biology and Fisheries in 2005 and obtained PhD degree in Biology, specialty in Marine Biology and Aquaculture in 2014 by Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. She is currently post-doc researcher at CIIMAR, IPMA and MARE. Her main research interest focus on the seafood quality and safety (chemical and microbiological […]

Benjamin Costas Refojos

Benjamín Costas completed a Masters in Aquaculture by the University of Algarve in 2006, and in 2011 achieved a PhD degree in Animal Science by the University of Porto. Benjamín Costas is currently Principal Researcher at CIIMAR and Head of Aquatic Animal Health, a young and strongly motivated team highlighting nutritional immunology as main research […]

Carla Maria Feio Pires

Carla Pires is a Researcher in the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Division of Aquaculture and Valorisation of Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA). She received her degree in Chemistry Engineering in 1994 and her PhD equivalent in 2008 in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics. Her main scientific area of research is on Upgrading of […]

Catarina Fernanda de Carvalho Pinheiro Teixeira

Benthic Ecology and Environmental Solutions

Felipe Bolgenhagen Schoninger

I’m a master student in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology with experiences in research fields such as biochemistry, microbiology and cell and molecular biology. I’m currently working as a technician under the supervision of the A2S theme.

Márcia Sofia Silva Martins

Márcia Martins obtained her BSc in Biochemistry in 2019 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto and her MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2021 at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the same University. She is currently a PhD student at the Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry Group at CIIMAR and is pursuing […]

Marcelo Soeth

Graduated in Marine Biology from the University of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil (2010). Master degree in Biology and Ecology of Coastal Systems from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (2013). Currently is also a PhD student in Coastal and Oceanic Systems at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. The PhD thesis proposal will use several […]

Rui Manuel Vieira Leitão

I am a designer, lecturer and researcher at the University of Leeds, UK, exploring ways to communicate, not only to inform but to generate public engagement as well. In the last few years, I have been expanding my research on gamified mobile applications and ocean literacy and developing research tools to evaluate their impact on […]