Personal Presentation

Marisa Almeida (Female, born in 1974) is a senior researcher at CIIMAR since 2005 with over 100 international publications in peer review scientific journals and ca. 70 presentations (oral and poster) in international and national scientific meetings. With a PhD in Chemistry (obtained in 2003) her research area involves pollutants surveys/impacts and bio and phytoremediation, being actively engage in studies that aim to enhance the use of bio and phytoremediation as a tool of biotechnology for remediation of aquatic environments contaminated with different pollutants. Her expertise is on environmental chemistry applied to coastal and estuarine environments, phytoremediation of contaminants in natural and constructed wetlands and bioremediation of oil spills as well as ecological risk assessment, having participated in several national and international projects on these topics. She is focusing on metals, hydrocarbons and emerging pollutants (e.g pharmaceuticals, nanoparticles and microplastics) tracking in different environmental matrices (water, sediment and biota), having extensive know how in analytical chemistry and application of several analytical techniques. She has supervised or co-supervised 5 Pos Doc researchers, 13 PhD students (10 on going), 28 MSc students (one on going) and internships of 3 international students as well as 25 Graduate students. Moreover she regularly gives talks to the general public and school students in the frame of the CIIMAR outreach programs and projects, regarding both ocean and water literacy. She participates also in COST actions, acts as project proposals evaluator, thesis evaluator and is an invited reviewer of several scientific journals. At CIIMAR she is responsible for coordination of the Chemical Analytical Platform, of the Chemistry Lab and of CMIA Vila do Conde.

Áreas de Interesse

1. Natural sciences