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). She also participated in the development of methodologies for extraction and identification of microplastics in sediments, waters and biota, including the identification of polymers through Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and micro FTIR attenuated total reflection (ATR).

Currently, Joana Antunes is a PhD student in the Environment and Sustainability PhD program at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the subject “Toxicological Mechanisms of Nanoplastics: Inflammation has a Genotoxicity Trigger”, supervised by Professor Marta Martins (MARE, FCT NOVA), Vasco Branco (iMED, FFUL) and Paula Sobral (MARE, FCT NOVA). She granted a PhD scholarship from the FCT (SFRH/BD/144333/2019).