PhD in Biology, University of Aveiro – 2010
MSc in Coastal Zones Sciences, University of Aveiro – 1997
First degree in Biology, University of Aveiro – 1994

ADVANCED COURSES AND WORKSHOPS

Ecological Risk Assessment
Birds Observation
Specimen Preparation for SEM: Handling Biological Scientific Ilustration
Material for Scanning Microscopical Observation
Cladistics and Polychaetes
Geographic Information Systems
Introduction to ArcGis I & II
Basics of Taxonomy: Describing, Illustrating and Writing Biodiversity
Conservation and Care of Natural History Collections
Specify 6 (software for museum research data processing)
Zoologic Nomenclature

INTENSIVE TRAINING

1999 – Tecniques on curation of marine invertebrates; managment and register of museum colections. Natural History Museum of London, with Dr. Paul Clark and Dr. Gordon Paterson;
1999 – Taxonomy of polychaetes – Paraonidae, ‘scale worms’. Natural History Museum of London, with Dr. Gordon Paterson and Dr. Alex Muir;
2000 – Taxonomy of polychaetes – Syllidae, Sabellidae, Nephtyidae. Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, with Dr. Guillermo San Martín, Dr. Eduardo López, and Dr. António Laborda;
2000 – Taxonomy of polychaetes – Sponidae. Universidade de Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Supervisor: José Manuel Viéitez;
2000 – Taxonomy of polychaetes – Terebellomorpha, Oweniidae. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade da Coruña, with Dr. Júlio Parapar;
2000 – Taxonomy of polychaetes – Phyllodocidae. Museum National de Histoire Naturel de Paris, with Dr. Fredrik Pleijel.
2000 – Marine invertebrate collections and databases; biologic material sampling. Estação de Biologia Marinha do Funchal.
2006 – Molecular analysis. Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg, with Dr. Helena Wiklund and Dr. Per Sundberg.
2008 – Phylogenetic analysis. Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences (University of Gothenburg), withDr. Fredrik Pleijel and Dr. Helena Wiklund.