Teresa Rocha-Santos obtained a degree in Analytical Chemistry (1996), a Ph.D. in Chemistry
(2000), and an Aggregation in Chemistry (2018) at University of Aveiro (UA). In 2001,
she was awarded a prize for her PhD studies. At Instituto Piaget, she was Assistant
Professor (2000-2009), Associate Professor (2009-2014), coordinated the environmental
chemistry graduation, and was responsible for: ERASMUS office; Chemistry labs; the
research unit of Exact and Bioecological Sciences; and member of scientific, pedagogic,
and disciplinary councils, and Advisory Board. Until 2010, she lectured about 12 hours
per week and from 2010 to 2014 about 4 hours per week. Since 2014 she is working at
Department of Chemistry (DQ) and CESAM, University of Aveiro: 2014-2019-Principal
Researcher, 2019(November)-2020- invited scientist, 2020(February)-2020-Assistant
Researcher, 2020-2024 Principal Researcher with Aggregation, 2024 to now - Coordinating
Researcher. Since 2015, she lectured about 3-4 hours per week at DQ-UA and has been
a member of Executive Commission of UA Doctoral School (2015-2019). She has been PI
of CESAM Environmental Contaminants Assessment & Remediation Laboratory (2018-2020)
and Co-PI of CESAM Environmental Biology & Health(EBH) Thematic Line (2018-2021).
From 2021 (May) she is Vice-Coordinator of CESAM. She published more than 200 papers
in SCI journals (Scopus). She has a total of 23475 citations(Scopus), and h-index
of 67 (22/01/2026). She was leader of 8 R&D projects and a participant in 24 (FCT,
H2020, MAR2020/FEAMP, P2020/FEDER) contributing to a budget of 9.4 M€. She reviewed
380 papers(Publons). She is author of 1 patent and editor of 10books and 1 Handbook.
She supervised/co-supervised 93 students/researchers:43 graduation students, 12 PhD
students(8 finished), 13 MSc students(12 finished), 4 post-doctoral researchers, 15
fellowships under the scope of research projects (15 finished). She has been panel
member for evaluation of projects for EU Commission and international institutions
(eg: Swedish EPA: microplastics call, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Environment
and health review panel, Portuguese Science foundation, NERC/UK Research and Innovation,
Natural Environment Research Council, University of Pau-Evaluation of proposals for
Junior Researcher Positions (microplastics area), University of Vienna- Review of
proposal on microplastics subject for Research Platforms, ERANET RUS Plus Joint call
for S&T projects, NSERC's Discovery Grant applications Canada, EURAMET projects, COST
actions, FCT PhD grants, ERC grants). She has also been monitoring European projects
and evaluating mid-term and final European project reports. She has been member of
the pannel of evaluation of research units (Hcères, France). She organized and was
member of the scientific committee of several national/international conferences.
In the last five years, she has been internationally recognized as microplastics expert
with consequent requests for evaluating proposals for research positions/platforms
in International Universities on this area. She has also been invited by the Group
of Chief Scientific Advisors of EU as microplastics expert to participate in the Experts
Workshop: Environmental and Health impacts of microplastic pollution-from scientific
evidence to policy advise at Brussels and to participate at G7 Microplastics Biomonitoring,
2019, Paris. In the last five years, she became a member of the Editorial/Advisory
Board from 8 journals. She has been Associate Editor of EMJEI(2017-2023) and JHM(2019-2023).
She is Executive Editor of JHM(> 2023) and (Co-)Editor in Chief of JHM Advances(>2021)
and Guest Editor of 7 special issues on micro-nanoplastics. From 2017, her research
teamwork gained worldwide public visibility and she has been invited for interviews,
and scientific communications. Since 2023 she has a total of 18 highly cited publications
(WoS, viewed january 2022) and she is a highly cited researcher (Clarivate).
