José Carlos Tentugal Valente

José Carlos Tentúgal Valente holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (1982) from the University of Porto, where he also completed his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering (1974). He served as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (retired) and taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the fields of General […]

Seyed Shahabedin Khalooeitafti

Seyed Shahabedin Khalooei is a researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. I am presently working in the research team of the project “WEC4Ports – A Hybrid Wave Energy Converter for Ports” (OCEANERA/0004/2019), funded by FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC). I got my MSc degree from the University of Tehran the […]

Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein Abouhalima

Mahmoud is a PhD student and researcher at UPorto FEUP. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Egypt in 2016. In 2021, he got his Master’s degree in coastal engineering where he developed a 2D coastal morphological model on MATLAB. With a keen interest in numerical modeling and the integration of machine learning […]

Ana Carolina Vieira Sousa

Ana Carolina Sousa holds a master’s degree in Applied Biology from the University of Aveiro. With training and experience in theater and cinema, she seeks to establish a synergy between scientific knowledge and her artistic skills, while working in Science Communication.

Lisa Pinto de Sousa

Lisa P. Sousa holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of Aveiro. Her work has focused on spatial planning and management, particularly of marine and coastal areas. She has been involved in several national and international research projects, but also in technical studies for governmental administrations, focusing on maritime spatial planning, […]

Jorge José Teixeira Cardoso Gonçalves

Jorge Cardoso Gonçalves holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Hydraulics, Water Resources, and Environment from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, where he also completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He has received training in Management from Porto Business School and has attended Advanced Programs in Water Services Management (LNEC/LIS-Water) and […]

André Almeida Silva

Blue Biotechnology, Environment and Health

Diana Amaral Marques

I have a bachelor’s degree in aquatic sciences at ICBAS and a master’s degree in conservation biology at FCUL. During my master’s degree, I had the opportunity to do my thesis on the ACCURATE project, where I analyzed acoustic tag data with R software and counted narwhal foraging sounds in MT Viewer software to obtain […]

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Andreu Santín Muriel

Andreu holds a PhD in Marine Science (2022) from the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona (Spain). His main line of research focuses on the ecology, conservation, and restoration of benthic ecosystems, particularly of sponge habitats. Specifically, his investigation focuses on the usage of ROV and other non-invasive techniques to study the diversity, structure and […]