Beatriz Matos

PhD student

Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (DCEA) NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

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MSc in Biochemistry since 2019. In her Master thesis she studied the toxicity of Quantum Dots (nanoparticles) using Zebrafish, Daphnia magna, and HepG2 cell line. Currently, she is researcher within the project PAHMIX - Mixtures of Environmental Carcinogens: a molecular approach to improve environmental risk assessment strategies, under the supervison of Professor Marta Martins. Currently, Beatriz Matos granted a PhD scholarship from the FCT (2020.09005.BD) and is a PhD student in the Environment and Sustainability PhD program at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa.  The subject of her thesis is “Molecular Insight on the Toxicity of Mixtures of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Improve Environmental Guidelines”, supervised by Professor Marta Martins (MARE, FCT NOVA), Vasco Branco (iMED, FFUL) and Mário Diniz (UCIBIO, FCT NOVA).