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I hold a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and in 2017 I completed my Habilitation in Chemistry. 
My career has been mainly focused on the fate and biogeochemistry of mercury in the environment, although I have also developed a substantial research program in related fields of trace element biogeochemistry. I am internationally recognized in these areas and developed several productive collaborations with universities and research laboratories worldwide. I am leading a multidisciplinary team is comprised of 12 researchers. The team is already involved in collaborations with international researchers from 9 countries, mainly in the field of Hg biogeochemistry and polar research.

In addition to working on multidisciplinary projects in Portugal, in many cases as the principal investigator (PI), I have collaborated on several international projects through which I was able to consolidate my career not only as an international mercury scientist but also developing a research expertise in polar regions. Due to my interest in the biogeochemistry of permafrost, I was invited to collaborate on the Canadian ADAPT project. Through all these nationally and internationally funded projects I successfully attracted more than 1.8M€ in funding for my research program. I have extensive experience in graduate student supervision, including 16 M.Sc., and 3 Ph.D. students, as well as two postdoctoral researchers. Also, five visiting researchers have worked in my laboratory. 

I published 71 papers and two book chapters in international, peer reviewed journals. 33 (46%) articles were published in the past 5 years. Among those, 45% were published with me as first or senior author. I have been cited more than 1034 times (1590-GScholar) and my h-index increased in the last 5 years from 11 to 19 (ISI Web of Knowledge), from to 13 to 21 (Scopus) and from 14 to 23 (GScholar). Over the same period, I also authored 69 communications in national and international conferences, 9 by invitation.

​My scientific recognition as a Hg researcher was explicitly acknowledged in 2011 when I was nominated representative to the Global Mercury Partnership of the United Nations environmental Program (UNEP). Based on the same competencies, I was appointed as Adjunct Graduate Faculty Member at Trent University (Canada) in 2016 and more recently invited to lead a virtual special issue of the Science of the Total Environment Journal, focused on wetlands.

I have been an executive member of the Portuguese Polar Program and was invited by FCT to prepare the admission of Portugal to the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). In April 2015, Portugal was accepted as the 23rd IASC member country and I was nominated by the Ministry of Science to represent Portugal as the National Delegate at the IASC. In 2017 I was nominated by IASC to chair the International Arctic Program T-MOSAiC (Terrestrial Multidisciplinary Observatories for the Study of Arctic connections), another testament for my scientific competence in leading an international project.