Principal Investigator

Susana Carvalho

Associate Professor of Practice of Marine Science

Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Biodiversity, Functional Ecology, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), Effects of Marine Pollution, Marine Ecosystems, eDNA

Research Scientists

Eva Aylagas Martinez

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Marine Biodiversity, Coral Reefs, Environmental DNA, Bioinvasions, Marine Monitoring

Research Staff

João Cúrdia

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Bacterial Ecology, Zoology, Ecology of Macrobenthic Communities, Succession in Ecology, Data Analysis of Biological Datasets, Marine Biodiversity

Karla Gonzalez

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Coral Reefs, Coral Bleaching, Marine Ecology, Benthic Communities

Doaa Baker

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, TOC, DOC, Molecular Biology, Biodiversity, eDNA

Vijayalaxmi Dasari

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Analysis, Heavy metals, Green sea turtles, Effects of Marine Pollution

Dylan Cottrell

Research Specialist

Research Interests: Facilitation, Multiple Stressors, Stress Gradients, Biodiversity, Seagrass, Community Ecology, Climate Change, Succession, Marine Restoration, Scientific Communication

Ronald Cadiz

Research Integration Analyst

Research Interests: ARMS, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), Environmental Management, Canthigaster Margaritata, Seagrass, Coral Reef Cryptobiome, Stylophora Pistillata

Postdoctoral Fellows

Imke M. Böök

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ecophysiology, Global Change, Ecotoxicology, Carbonate Chemistry, Bioerosion

Angelo Poliseno

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Anthozoa, Biodiversity, eDNA, Mitogenomics, Molecular Ecology, Phylogenetics, Taxonomy

Juan Sempere-Valverde

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Coastal Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Artificial Structures, Invasive Species, Marine Restoration, Climate Resilience

Marcos A. L. Teixeira

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polychaeta, Cryptic Species, Taxonomy, DNA Barcoding, Molecular Ecology

Ph.D. Students

Sofía Ruiz de Velasco

PhD student

Research Interests: Bryozoans, Fouling, Port Environments, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS)

Gloria Gil

PhD student

Research Interests: Biodiversity, Coral Reefs, Microbial Ecology, Bacterial Ecology, Anthropogenic pressures on coral reefs, eDNA, Metabarcoding

Louis Simon

PhD student

Joao Gabriel Duarte Rosado

PhD Student

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Marine Ecology, Metabarcoding, Microbiology, Reef Restoration

Micaela Justo

PhD Student

Research Interests: Anthropogenic actions, Reef organisms, Organics, Metals, Stress oxidative, Stress, Changes

Master Students

Sofia Walzer

MS Student

Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecotoxicology, Marine Conservation, Ecosystem Management

Visiting Researchers

Sahar Chebaane

Visiting Researcher

Research Interests: Invasive Species, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), Coastal Areas

Vitaly Semin

Visiting Researcher

Research Interests: Polychaeta, Arctic, Antarctic, Red Sea, Synecology, Vertical distribution, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS)