Curriculum Vitae
Nuno Nunes
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Nuno Nunes
- Date of birth
- 1983/09/02
- Gender
- Male
Citation names
- Nunes, Nuno
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D412-34DB-BB84
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6166-8045
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 963988872 (Personal)
Addresses
- Azinhaga Do Poço Barral, 48 A, 9000-638, Funchal, Funchal, Portugal (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2015/10/01 - 2020/09/10
Concluded
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Biological Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
"Evaluation of the use of marine macroalgae in the industrial production of biorefinery-derived biofunctional products" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved |
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2008/09/01 - 2011/11/23
Concluded
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Applied Biochemistry (Mestrado)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
"Evaluation and Valorization of Agricultural Resources: Nutritional and mineral evaluation of traditional sweet potato varieties
(Ipomoea potatoes L.) from Madeira and the Azores" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
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2005/09/15 - 2008/06/26
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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13 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/09/01 - 2025/03/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal |
| 2021/03/01 - 2023/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira ISOPlexis Banco de Germoplasma, Portugal | ||
| 2020/02/03 - 2021/02/28 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira, Portugal | ||
| 2013/10/01 - 2015/09/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | UBQ II Lda, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira, Portugal | ||
| 2011/07/01 - 2012/06/30 | Research Trainee (Research) | Instituto de emprego da Madeira, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/08 - 2024/06/24 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal |
| 2023/09/01 - 2024/02/07 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal |
| 2023/02/15 - 2023/06/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal |
| 2022/10/03 - 2023/02/14 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal |
| 2022/02/21 - 2022/06/06 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal |
| 2021/10/06 - 2022/02/19 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal |
| 2021/03/01 - 2021/07/03 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal |
| 2020/10/06 - 2021/02/13 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão, Portugal | ||
| 2019/02/11 - 2019/06/29 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013/01/07 - 2013/07/03 | Trainer in Organic Agriculture | Escola Básica e Secundária Gonçalves Zarco, Portugal |
| Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/06/01 - 2024/04/30 | PhytoNutre - Extensive processing of microalgae biomass for the extraction of proteins with nutritional, nutraceutical and
pharmaceutical properties
PT-INNOVATION-0118
Researcher
Phytoalgae, Lda, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira ISOPlexis Banco de Germoplasma, Portugal |
EEA Grants
Ongoing
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/09/01 - 2025/03/31 | BIO-VALOR - Integrated Specialization Strategy for the Sustainable Valorization of Endogenous Resources in Fruit Growing in
Organic Production Mode"
FEADER-02551
Post-doc Fellow
Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira ISOPlexis Banco de Germoplasma, Portugal Phytoalgae, Lda, Portugal |
Ongoing
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| 2019/02/03 - 2020/09/10 | Casbio - Evaluation and monitoring of Agrobiodiversity and Sustainability of Agrosystems in new climate scenarios
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação
Ongoing
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| 2016/07/01 - 2019/06/30 | DemoBlueAlgae - Development of methodologies and optimization of macroalgae cultivation and processing processes for industry
and the blue economy
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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Instituto de Desenvolvimento Regional Madeira 14-20
Concluded
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| 2016/08/01 - 2018/12 | Boost BLUE economy trough market uptake an innovative seaweed bioextract for IODINE fortification II
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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European Commission
Concluded
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| 2013/10/13 - 2014/12/31 | BPMA - BioProspecting of marine algae for the production of natural extracts
Researcher
UBQ II Lda, Portugal
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal |
Fundo de Desenvolvimento Regional
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/03/01 - 2022/08/31 | PhytoBlueFrac - Production optimization of microalgae for the production of nutraceutical food supplements through selective
fractionation
74/DSP/2021
Researcher
Universidade da Madeira Faculdade de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
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EEA Grants |
| 2019/09/01 - 2022/08/31 | Ahidagro - Contribution to water savings in strategic crops for the primary sector of Canaries and Madeira through the application
of natural products and bioactive extracts with osmoprotective properties
Technical development
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2020/11/03 - 2021/12/31 | Forward - Fostering research excellence in EU Outermost Regions
Other
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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| 2018/12/01 - 2021/03/31 | Bioactiv - Transformation and recovery of agro-industrial waste for the production of BIOACTIVE compounds in microalgae
M1420-01-0247-FEDER-000023
Technical development
Phytoalgae, Lda, Portugal
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Fundo de Desenvolvimento Regional
Ongoing
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| 2017/01/01 - 2020/11/30 | MacBioBlue - Demonstration and technology transfer project to help companies develop new products and processes in the field
of Macaronesian Blue Biotechnology
Technical development
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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Interreg Europe
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/10/09 | Optimization of Chlorella vulgaris autotrophic growth for improved essential fatty acids production | Algae Biomass Summit
(Wisconsin, United States)
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| 2023/02/19 | Seaweed beach-casts: Are these valuable and safe resources? | 24th International Seaweed Symposium
(Hobart, Australia)
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| 2023/02/19 | Assessment of a biorefinery methodology to produce high-value products from local harvested red macroalgae | 24th International Seaweed Symposium
(Hobart, Australia)
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| 2022/11/30 | Bioeconova The implementation of innovative solutions to increase the sustainability and resilience of agricultural crops | Workshop Climate Changes in Agriculture¿
(Funchal, Portugal)
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| 2022/11/23 | Adopting the red macroalgae Grateloupia lanceola, collected in Madeira archipelago offshore fish farms, to extract multiple products through a biorefinery strategy | Festival of Algae 2
(Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/05/23 | Improving the cultivation parameters of the green edible microalgae Chlorella vulgaris to develop nutraceutical food supplements through fractionation | 41st Marine Sciences in Times of Change
(Concepción, Chile)
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| 2019/04/30 | Vortex-assisted solid-liquid microextraction methodology for Rapid HPLC/PDA determination of fucoxanthin in seaweed biomass | 23rd International Seaweed Symposium
The Korean Society of Phycology (Jeju, South Korea)
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| 2018/06/27 | Biochemical diversity of 15 marine macroalgae from Madeira and Porto Santo islands: Assessment of its potential for food supplement application | 1st Seaweed for Health Conference
DTU foods (Galway, Ireland)
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| 2018/06/27 | Reviewing the worldwide seaweed harvest and aquaculture to determine its potential to integrate in the industrial production of biofunctional components obtained by biorefinery | 1st Seaweed for Health Conference
DTU foods (Galway, Ireland)
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| 2018/06/27 | Screening seaweed from Madeira archipelago to assess in vitro potential as anti-acetylcholinesterase, anti-butyrylcholinesterase and cytotoxic effect in human A549 lung cancer cellular line | 1st Seaweed for Health Conference
DTU foods (Galway, Ireland)
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| 2017/02/08 | Evaluation of the use of marine macroalgae in the industrial production of biofunctional components obtained by biorefinery | Applied Research in Macroalgae
Universidade da Madeira - ISOPlexis (Funchal, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/12 - 2023/12/15 | Poster presentation - Assessment of two extraction methods to optimize protein quantification in the edible green microalga
Chlorella vulgaris
Conference
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Alga Europe Prague |
| 2023/12/12 - 2023/12/15 | Poster presentation - Blue Biotechnology: Analysis of protein and enzymatic fractions of microalgal extracts, produced in
bioreactors in growth-controlled conditions
Conference
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Alga Europe Prague |
| 2023/12/12 - 2023/12/15 | Poster presentation - Blue biotechnology, analysis of the protein fractions from microalgae extracts
Conference
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Alga Europe Prague |
| 2023/08/20 - 2023/08/26 | Poster presentation - Assessment of the biochemical parameters of Arthrospira platensis cultivated semi-continuously using
three nutrient replenishment media for industrial production
Conference
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8th European Phycological Congress |
| 2023/05/09 - 2023/05/11 | Poster presentation - Extensive processing of microalgal biomass for the extraction of proteins with nutritional, nutraceutical,
and pharmaceutical properties
Symposium
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Young Algaeneers Symposium |
| 2022/12/13 - 2022/12/15 | Poster presentation - Assessing the growth and nutritional characteristics of Chlorella vulgaris when cultivated in a cost-effective
way, intended for commercial production in Madeira archipelago
Conference
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Alga Europe Rome |
| 2022/06/29 - 2022/06/30 | Poster presentation - The influence of different media and light intensity for the production of Haematococcus pluvialis in
the green phase: Biomass and biochemical assessment envisioning a good start for the red phase
Conference
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11th International Seaweed Conference Bremerhaven, Germany |
| 2021/11/17 - 2021/11/18 | Poster presentation - Optimization of Chlorella vulgaris cultivation parameters and biochemical assessment for nutraceutical
food supplements development through selective fractionation
Conference
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A Festival of Algae, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| 2021/10/11 - 2021/10/13 | Poster presentation - Implementing a biorefinery strategy to process macroalgae and obtain new bioproducts to increase the
sustainability and resilience of the agrosystems and bioeconomy
Symposium
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1st International Symposium on Agriculture and Food Sustainability: New Climate Change Scenarios |
| 2021/10/11 - 2021/10/13 | Poster presentation - Unravelling the dehydrated sewage sludge potential to fertilize agricultural crops: A circular economy
perspective to Porto Santo Island
Symposium
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1st International Symposium on Agriculture and Food Sustainability: New Climate Change Scenarios |
| 2019/10/21 - 2019/10/22 | The APAA 2019 Conference was held in the CIIMAR building, located in the Leixões Cruise Terminal, in Matosinhos. It brought
together several Portuguese micro and macro algae companies and research institutions to present and discuss the current situation
in the sector.
Conference
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Portuguese Association of Applied Algology (APAA)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
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| 2019/04/28 - 2019/05/03 | Poster Presentation - Constructing ethanol derived bioactive extracts using the brown seaweed Zonaria tournefortii performed
with timatic extractor by means of response surface methodology (RSM)
Symposium
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23rd International Seaweed Symposium
The Korean Society of Phycology, South Korea
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| 2019/02/27 - 2019/02/27 | Workshop in "Algae production in Europe: status, challenges and future developments"
Workshop
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Workshop in "Algae production in Europe: status, challenges and future developments"
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Belgium
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| 2018/09/12 - 2018/09/15 | Poster presentation - Biochemical study on marine macroalgae diversity from Madeira archipelago to determine its potential
for food supplement application.
Conference
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Floramac
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
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| 2018/08/14 - 2018/08/18 | Visit with a Portuguese delegation in Norway, city of Trondheim. Visit to the companies Bewi, Hitra Mat, SalMar and Leroy,
linked to the aquaculture branch. Visit to the AquaNor exhibition.
Other
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Strengthening bilateral relations, Norway-Portugal
Direcção Geral de Política do Mar (DGPM), Portugal
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| 2018/06/24 - 2018/06/27 | Poster presentation - Optimization and validation of a spectrophotometric method for iodine content and evaluation of 22 marine
macroalgae from Madeira archipelago
Conference
|
1st Seaweed for Health Conference |
| 2017/06/18 - 2017/06/23 | Poster presentation: 1. Total lipids and fatty acids composition of macroalgae Asparagopsis taxiformis D., Ulva lactuca L.
and Zonaria tournefortii L. from Madeira Archipelago 2. Assessment of total iodine in seven seaweed species from Madeira Archipelago
and development of an iodine rich bioactive extract from red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis D.
Congress
|
6th Congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology
Université de Nantes, France
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| 2016/06/19 - 2016/06/24 | Poster presentation - Analysis of the biochemical composition and antioxidant properties of 7 seaweeds from Madeira Archipelago
Symposium
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22nd International Seaweed Symposium |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/09/24 - Current | CITAB (Center for Research and Agro-environmental and Biological Technologies) - University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal. Center recognized and financed by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), under the UIDB / 04033/2020 and UIDP / 04033/2020 projects. https://www.citab.utad.pt/ | PhD collaborator |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/08 - 2024/06/24 | Agro-food processing | (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) | |
| 2024/02/08 - 2024/06/24 | Biotechnology | (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) | |
| 2023/10/09 - 2024/02/07 | General Chemistry | (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Best Working Group Presentation Young Algaeneers Symposium |