TEAM
Heliana Teixeira
Ana Hilário
Clara Rodrigues
Maria Cristina Romanello
| Project PI; Assistant Researcher CESAM & DBIO
| Assistant Researcher CESAM & DBIO
| Assistant Researcher CESAM & DBIO
| visiting Master Student Marine Biology, University of Naples, Federico II
ABOUT US
Heliana is the CREPIDULA project PI. She is a marine benthic ecologist with expertise in environmental assessments and in evaluating the impacts of anthropogenic activities and climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. She currently coordinates the several marine biodiversity and conservation related projects and activities.
Ana is a deep-sea ecologist with expertise on reproductive ecology and population connectivity and its implications for biogeography and conservation. She currently coordinates the several deep-sea related projects and activities.
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Clara is a deep-sea ecologist with expertise on the use of molecular data to study populations genetics and its application on biogeography and conservation. She has been collaborating on CREPIDULA project supporting all genomics' related activities.
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Cristina is a visiting student from the Marine Biology Master at the University of Naples, Federico II, in Italy. She is doing her dissertation on population dynamics and the life-cycle of the species Crepidula fornicata in this southern European coastal lagoon. During her visit she is also receiving training in histological procedures to study the reproductive cycle of this invasive alien gastropod.
former members
Beatriz Santos obtained her Applied Ecology Master at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro, developing her Thesis within the CREPIDULA project in 2024.
Teresa Coelho obtained her Applied Ecology Master Degree at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro, developing her Thesis within the CREPIDULA project in 2024.
Nuno Azevedo was a student in the Applied Marine Biology Master Student at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro, collaborated in the CREPIDULA project.
TRAINING
MSc | Beatriz Santos participated in the project field campaigns and laboratory work, where she studied the vertical distribution of this invasive gastropod along the intertidal habitats of Ria, trying to understand how local niche occupancy might explain the limited spread in this system. To achieve that she characterised the habitat and explored allometric relationships across the environmental gradients. She was awarded a scholarship "Verão com Ciência 2022" da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and she developed her MSc Thesis dissertation within this project.
MSc | Teresa Coelho was awarded a scholarship "Verão com Ciência 2022" da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and developed her MSc Thesis dissertation within this project. She studied the fishers perception of the impacts caused by this invasive non-indigenous species in the lagoon, both on their activities and on the natural environment.
MSc | Nuno Azevedo (Applied Marine Biology Master Student) participated in the project field campaigns and laboratory work, where he received training in population dynamics and histological procedures to study the reproductive cycle of this invasive alien gastropod.
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Contact us!
Heliana Teixeira | heliana.teixeira@ua.pt
Ana Hilário | ahilario@ua.pt