Pedro M. Costa (Lab leader)

Assistant Professor

Carolina Madeira

Assistant Professor

Carolina Madeira holds a PhD in Marine Biology and Aquaculture (University of Lisbon, 2018). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Marine Molecular Biology at NOVA School of Science and Technology and an integrated researcher at the Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO). Her research is driven by a commitment to understanding and protecting marine biodiversity across levels of biological organization - from molecules to ecosystems - in the context of rapid environmental change. She leads the Marine Omics for Ocean Resilience research line, which investigates how global change drivers, including ocean warming, acidification, and hypoxia, affect marine organisms and ecosystems across the Atlantic Ocean. By integrating multi-omics, physiology, ecology, and systems biology through multilayer network approaches, her work seeks to identify molecular mechanisms, adaptive strategies, species-specific tolerance thresholds, and molecular tipping points that shape marine fauna resilience or vulnerability to environmental stress. Ultimately, her research aims to generate actionable molecular targets and physiological indicators that support biodiversity conservation, fisheries management and aquaculture innovation under future Global Changes

Ana P. Rodrigo

Junior Researcher

Cátia Gonçalves

Post-Doctoral fellow