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Antonia Kellner

Intern Researcher at ML&MP Research Line

Antonia holds a Bachelor in Molecular Biology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Her research focuses on the occurrence and identification of microplastics in the environment, and she conducted a systematic study of microplastic fiber release from different textiles during machine washing under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bernd Nowack at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA).

Bárbara Sá

Research Fellow

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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Marine biologist with a master's degree, specialized in microorganisms and microplastics. Bárbara has worked in areas of the ecology (Palaemonetes varians in Salinas do Samouco; phytoplankton and microzooplankton in Ria Formosa; copepods in Germany), public education/awareness (in Lisbon), fisheries and pollution (in South Pacific, Azores and Madeira).

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.

Catarina Silva

Research Fellow

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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Catarina Silva has a degree in Biology by Lusófona University of Humanities and Technology (ULHT) since 2017. She is now finishing her master's degree in Marine Ecology at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon (FCUL). Her master thesis, carried out at Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) focuses on the presence of microplastics in pelagic fishes (Sardina pilchardus, Engraulis encrasicolus and Trachurus trachurus). Her thesis analysed the accumulation of MPs in three tissues (gills, gastrointestinal tracts and muscles).

Diana Rodrigues

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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Diana Rodrigues is a Marine Ecologist since 2010. Her Master thesis was focused on fish behaviour and associations with rocky reef habitats. As a research fellow till 2017, she became a fish larvae identification expert, focused in larval development and in their spatial and temporal distribution patterns. She is currently an Environmental and Sustainability PhD student at FCT-UNL. Her PhD thesis is focused on the impacts of microplastic ingestion in marine fish species from Portuguese waters.

Joana Antunes

PhD student

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

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Environmental Engineer, specialized in microplastics and marine litter since 2011. Joana has collaborated in national and international projects focused in risk analysis (HERA project) regarding estuarine contamination by heavy metals and in microplastics and marine litter identification, abundance and distribution in the Portuguese beaches, wastewater treatment plants and in biota (BASEMAN project).

Joana Neves

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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Master’s in environmental engineering in the field of environmental systems and a degree in Biology. During her degree, Joana Neves had the opportunity to volunteer in the CUMBFISH project. Her master thesis was developed in the area of environment risk, particularly the study of the effects of the ingestion of microplastics using a marine fish as a model organism. Currently, she is a researcher at MARlab Team within the D4Ss project, under the supervision of Professors Marta Martins and Maria Helena Costa.

Joana Pais

Assistant Researcher

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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J. Pais has a PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, MSc in Biotechnology, and degree in Applied Chemistry at FCT NOVA. She has a background in Sustainability and Environmental Justice with contributions for the circular economy, and dissemination of important issues related with environmental protection that is entangled with the improvement of worldwide society life.

João Frias

Research Fellow

Marine and Freshwater Research Centre (MFRC) Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, H91 T8NW, Galway, Ireland

Principal Investigator (Ph.D.) at MFRC - GMIT

Maria Helena Costa

Full Professor

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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Degree in Biology, Lisbon University and PhD in Environmental Sciences, New University of Lisbon.

Since 1992 develops her research work in the Institute of Marine Research - IMAR, today integrated in the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre - MARE, coordinating the MARE.Nova Pole and the research line Environmental Risk.

Marta do Rosário Cristino Silva Ventura

PhD student

Senior laboratory technician at the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Department of Food Safety and Nutrition. Works on food safety and quality as well as the development and implementation of analytical methods for multielemental determination of trace elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).

Marta Martins

MARLab Coordinator, Assistant Professor

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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Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (FCT NOVA).

Coordinator of MARlab.

Group Leader of the Ecotoxicoly and Risk Assessment Research Line at MARLab.

Naiara Casagrande

PhD Student

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

Naiara has formal qualifications in Environmental Engineering, in her master’s she
worked at the Research Group on Life Cycle Analyses (CICLOG) at UFSC, Brazil and
carried out a research to address the environmental damages caused by plastic debris
reaching the ocean within the LCA context. In previous work experience through an
engineering internship at Kimberly-Clark mill, she had achievements in developing
projects to mitigate environmental impacts in the tissue paper mill. She has also

Neusa Figueiredo

Assistant Researcher

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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NL. Figueiredo has a PhD in Pharmacy (Toxicology) (FFUL), Master degree in Biochemistry (FCUL) and degree in Biology (ISA-UL). Currently is researcher within the Project PAHMIX - a molecular approach to improve environmental risk assessment strategies funded by FCT/MCTES (PTDC/CTA-AMB/29173/2017). NL. Figueiredo expertise is in microbiology and environmental toxicology. Environmental toxicology, especially aquatic toxicology, is a research area focused on the effects of exposures to toxic substances.

Nourhaen Rebai

Research Intern

Nourhaen has focused on acquiring the deep and comprehensive knowledge in marine biology during the last 4 years. Her master's research revolved on “soft-bottom macrobenthic diversity and ecological status of ports”. Currently, she is at the second year of PhD at the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia, and works on the quantification and the identification of microplastics on marine organisms in Tunisian coasts.