Team
Inês Teixeira do Rosário
Group director
Inês is a biologist with a PhD in Ecology from the University of Lisbon (2013), focused on the ecology of an endangered Iberian vole (Cabrera vole). More recently, she has been dedicated to research of ecosystem services, with a focus on cultural services in High Nature Value Farmlands (HNVFf). Particularly interested in exploring socio-cultural valuation methods to understand stakeholders’ perceptions of ecosystem services, she has also based her research on citizen science and crowdsourcing databases. She is linked to two projects aiming to integrate the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures: PORBIOTA, with the main goal of managing biodiversity data in Portugal, and LTER Portugal, a network focused on site/ecosystem based long-term monitoring.
Margarida Santos-Reis
Senior Researcher
Margarida has a Ph.D. in Biosystematics and Ecology from the University of Lisbon (1990), is the former scientific coordinator of the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c R&D unity – 2009 to 2017), and currently is the Vice-Director of the Faculty of Science, Lisbon University (FCUL) for research affairs. Margarida also leads the Carnivore Conservation Ecology Subgroup of Conservation in Socio-Ecological Ecosystems and is a professor of Ecology at FCUL. Her present research interests focus on three structuring areas (1 – Population and Community Ecology, 2 – Conservation Biology, 3 – Long Term Ecological Research) and two cross-cutting themes (4 – Anthropogenic Impacts, 5 – Ecosystem Services), with emphasis on two social-ecological systems (the Montado and urban systems).
Ana Catarina Luz
Postdoctoral researcher
Ana is the former director of SER group and Post-Doctoral Fellow at cE3c. She is a Biologist with an MSc in Geographic Information Systems from LIGIT-UAB, and a PhD in Environmental Sciences Ethnoecology Lab, ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research is focused on the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES), specifically on the adaptive nature of SES and how human-nature interactions influence the use and management of landscapes and natural resources. She bases her research in combining methods from the social and natural sciences, to model and understand human-nature relationships, and ultimately support sustainable SES pathways and policy. Most recently, she is working on Urban Green Infrastructure and Urban planning.
Patrícia Garcia-Pereira
Postdoctoral researcher
Patrícia is a biologist with a PhD in Biology from the Universidade Autónoma de Madrid with a dissertation on Portuguese butterflies. She has curated several scientific exhibitions and projects related to public awareness on natural history. The promotion of people participation and contribution for the knowledge of Portuguese biodiversity, with special regard on insects, has been a constant goal of her work. Currently she is working in the consolidation of Biodiversity Stations network, which are nature walks with posters where visitors are invited to participate in the monitoring of footpath’s diversity, and also coordinating insect’s conservation status for the first Portuguese Invertebrates Red list.
Patrícia Tiago
Postdoctoral researcher
Patrícia is a biologist with a PhD in Biology by the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (2017), in the area of citizen science. She is a founding member of the citizen science platform – BioDiversity4All – project launched in 2010 that aims to bring together the largest number of citizens in the knowledge and recording of national biodiversity. Patrícia has collaborated in the areas of communication and dissemination of science and environmental education with Oceanário de Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica and Associação Bandeira Azul. Currently, Patrícia is working in PORBIOTA, a project that aims to promote a national agenda for biodiversity research.
Joana Martelo
Postdoctoral researcher
Before joining SER in 2018, Joana did her PhD at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon on habitat selection of Mediterranean stream fishes and the mechanisms underlying it. Her first degree was in Biology at the same institution, and her MSc at Imperial College of London was on habitat associations of exploited fish in the Amazon river-floodplain system. Joana’s research interests are focused on studying the effects of human impacts on species and ecosystems, particularly in freshwaters, and exploring how people and the environment interact in social-ecological systems, and the way these interactions might be managed to slow biodiversity loss. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at MARE UL on ISOINVA Quantifying food web dynamics in invaded stream communities, and she collaborates on other projects related to biological invasions and public awareness (e.g., LIFE Invasaqua).
Filipa Grilo
PhD student
Filipa is conducting a PhD in urban ecology in the frame of the Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (BIODIV) doctoral program, in cE3c of the University of Lisbon. Her PhD is in collaboration with the SER group, the Ecology of Environmental Change (eChanges) research groups of cE3c, and the Urban Systems Lab of the New School of New York. Her research interests are urban ecology, ecological resilience and ecosystem services assessment. She is applying the ecological resilience concept in urban systems, by understanding what structural and functional elements of the urban green infrastructure contribute to the resilience of Mediterranean cities to climate change.
Paula Gonçalves
PhD student
Paula has an MCs in Conservation Biology by the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon and is conducting a PhD in Urban Ecology under the supervision of Professor Margarida Santos-Reis, in the frame of the Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (BIODIV) Doctoral Program of cE3c. She is applying a biocultural approach to study the interplay of nature and culture in urban parks, and her main interest is to understand how parks’ biophysical characteristics influence users’ perceptions on biodiversity and attachment to place and how they contribute to users’ psychological well-being.
Raquel C. Mendes
PhD student
Raquel has a MSc in Conservation Biology from FCUL and, since 2013, has developed research in Urban Ecology specifically in Road Ecology, Ecosystem Restoration and Soil Ecology. In 2020, she started the FCUL PhD Programme in Biology, supervised by Professor Margarida Santos-Reis (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon) and Professor Martin Scheuch (University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education). The main aim of her PhD is to investigate the social-ecological factors that promote the connection with nature in younger generations, contributing to an education that supports the sustainability strategy in Lisbon schools and other cities. Currently, her research interests are Urban Ecology, Citizen Science, Ecosystem Services, Nature-Based Solutions and Education for Sustainable Development.
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