Persistent Digital Identifiers (UIDs)
ORCID :
0000-0002-6836-0331
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Subject Area
Marine Biotechnology, Marine Products
Pollution
Activities
Marisa Almeida (Female, born in 1974) is a senior researcher at CIIMAR
since 2005, head of the team Environmental Chemistry
and Recovery, with over 130 international publications
in peer review scientific journals and ca. 100 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. Currently she is leading a project in
estuarine salt marsh as nature based solutions for pollutants removal.
Her
expertise is on environmental chemistry applied to
coastal and estuarine environments and phytoremediation of contaminants
in natural and constructed wetlands and contributes in
studies on bioremediation of oil spills as well as on ecological risk
assessment, coordinating and participating 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, 15 PhD students (9 on going), 32
MSc students
(2 on going) and internships of 6 international
students as well as 27 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, coordinating or participating on
projects on this topic. She has also coordenated CMIA, a science
dissemination
center, between 2019 and 2021. She participates also
in COST actions (2 conclude and 2 on-going), acts as project proposals
evaluator, thesis evaluator and is an editor and
invited reviewer of several scientific journals. At CIIMAR she is
responsible
for coordination of the Chemical Analytical Platform
and of the Chemistry Lab.
