Curriculum Vitae
Filipa Macedo Coutinho de Oliveira Soares
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Filipa Macedo Coutinho de Oliveira Soares
Citation names
- Soares, Filipa Coutinho
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 1B1C-6B39-1BF2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7579-2538
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jaxwMKoAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
- Scopus Author Id
- 57214329398
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 917441412 (Personal)
Addresses
- Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Tapada da Ajuda , 1349-017, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jaxwMKoAAAAJ&hl=en (Scholar)
- https://cesco.mnhn.fr/fr/annuaire/filipa-coutinho-soares-6486 (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filipa-Soares-3 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2018/03/01 - 2022/10/04
Concluded
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Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Effects of bird extinctions and introductions on the functional and taxonomic diversity of oceanic islands" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Awarded with Distinction and Honour |
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2022
Concluded
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Post Graduation Course Data Science Engineering (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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16 |
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2021 - 2021
Concluded
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Hands on Functional Diversity: From ecological indicators to ecosystem services (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2019 - 2019
Concluded
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Dealing with uncertainty in species distributions: Fuzzy modelling and fuzzy comparisons (Outros)
Tranzmitting Science, Spain
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2019 - 2019
Concluded
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Models in Invasion Ecology: Challenges and applications (Outros)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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2018 - 2018
Concluded
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Scientific writing and communication (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2015/09 - 2017/10/09
Concluded
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Conservation Biology (Mestrado)
Major in Terrestrial Environmental Biology
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modelling the distribution of São Tomé bird species: ecological determinants and conservation prioritization" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2017 - 2017
Concluded
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Applied methods in Community Ecology and Functional Ecology (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2017 - 2017
Concluded
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Measuring biodiversity: How to get data, assess its quality and measure different aspects of diversity (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2017 - 2017
Concluded
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Production of Science communication activities (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2017 - 2017
Concluded
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Stable isotopes in Ecology and Environment: A tool to integrate scales and complexity (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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2012/09 - 2015/07
Concluded
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Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2025/03/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal |
| 2022/12/01 - 2025/02/28 | Postdoc (Research) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2018/03 - 2022/10 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal | ||
| 2017/11 - 2018/02 | Research Trainee (Research) | Grupo Lobo, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2025/03/01 - Current | RISKY - Wildlife Mortality from Energy and Transport Infrastructure
Post-doc
Associação BIOPOLIS - Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2018/03 - 2022/10 | PhD grantee in the Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution PhD program
PD/BD/140832/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/12 - 2025/02/28 | TransLoc - Translocations of flora and fauna for conservation and restoration: ecological, evolutionary, and socio-economic
impacts, at multiple scales
Post-doc
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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European Biodiversity Partnership
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Online resource |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/10 | Plant translocations can help conserve phylogenetic diversity of European countries | Congrès International de la Société Française d’Écologie et Évolution
(Lyon, France)
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| 2024/06/20 | First insights from Transloc, an extensive database of conservation translocations of plants and animals in the Western Paleartic | 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology
(Bologna, Italy)
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| 2023/11 | Having a look at translocated plant species across European countries: is there a bias in phylogenetic or functional diversity? | 3rd International Conservation Translocations Conference 2023
(Perth, Australia)
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| 2022/07 | Bird extinctions and introductions are causing taxonomic and functional homogenization in oceanic islands | SIBECOL AIL Meeting 2022
Iberian Association of Limnology and the Society of Iberian Ecology (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2022/03 | Combined effects of bird extinctions and introductions in oceanic islands: decreased functional diversity despite increased species richness | Student Conference on Conservation Science
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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| 2021/10 | Niche differences may reduce competition between native and exotic birds in oceanic islands | Early Career Biogeographers Conference (online)
The International Biogeography Society
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| 2019/03/02 | Land-use intensification promotes the expansion of introduced species: the case study of São Tomé Island | X Congresso de Ornitologia da SPEA
Sociedade portuguesa para o estudo das aves (Peniche, Portugal)
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| 2017/11/09 | Is the existing protected network adequate for the conservation of the endemic-rich avifauna of São Tomé Island? | 16º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/01 - 2024/06 | Quelle contribution des espèces transloquées à la diversité fonctionnelle des communautés végétales en Europe?
Co-supervisor
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Université Paris-Saclay AgroParisTech, France
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France Sorbonne Université, France |
| 2024/01 - 2024/06 | Diversité phylogénétique et fonctionnelle des espèces végétales transloquées dans quatre pays européens
Co-supervisor
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Sorbonne Université, France
Université Paris-Saclay AgroParisTech, France Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2023/01 - 2023/06 | Quels sont les biais d’efforts dans les translocations de conservation des plantes en Europe?
Co-supervisor
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Sorbonne Université, France
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France Université Paris-Saclay AgroParisTech, France |
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/06/17 - 2024/06/21 | Organization of a symposium "Synthesizing data and knowledge to improve the performance of conservation translocations" at
the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2024), held in Bologna (Italy). Within the symposium, I did an oral
presentation entitled "First insights from Transloc, an extensive database of conservation translocations of plants and animals
in the Western Paleartic". (2024/06/20)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Society for Conservation Biology, United States |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2021 - Current | Participation at "FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência" (1st edition) with an activity to introduce urban park birds
to young audiences.
Festival
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FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência |
| 2017 - Current | Junto à Terra was an environmental education initiative launched by EDP that aimed to publicise and enhance the natural heritage
of a vast region of Trás-os-Montes covered by the Baixo Sabor and Foz Tua dams. Participation in the "Descoberta do Lobo"
activity with Grupo Lobo.
Workshop
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Junto à Terra
EDP, Portugal
Grupo Lobo, Portugal |
| 2017 - Current | Participation in the "European Researchers Night" with an activity to explore the terrestrial fauna of Portugal.
Other
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European Researchers Night |
| 2022/11/07 - 2022/11/11 | Invitation to the 2nd INVACOST Workshop. It was focused on deepening our understanding of the economic costs of biological
invasions, and more precisely on three themes: extrapolating the costs that we don’t have; forecasting the future costs; and
statistically linking the economic costs to the ecological impacts.
Link to experts list: https://invacost.fr/groupe/experts/
Workshop
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INVACOST Workshop II
IDEEV, France
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/09/25 | Les espèces endémiques et leurs enjeux de conservation | Gabrielle Leca (Master)
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2024/09 - 2024/09 | Traits, threats, and popularity explain extinction risk of birds globally | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| 2024/05 - 2024/06 | The first national census of the common barn owl (Tyto alba) breeding population in Portugal | Airo |
| 2023/02 - 2023/03 | The leiothrix effect: changes caused by an invasive species on the native bird community | Animal Conservation |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2021 - Current | Member of the National Board of eNGO LPN, Liga para a Proteccção da Natureza (Portugal). LPN is the oldest environmental NGO in the Iberian Peninsula. Tasks include leading LPN’s Working Group focused on Nature Restoration and representing LPN in the Biodiversity Working Group of The European Environmental Bureau (EEB). | Member of the National Board |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/06 - 2022/11 | Project "The Little Bustard (Tetrax tetrax) in Extremadura: Population and Ecology" (in Series of Monographs on Protected Species by the General Direction of Sustainability), Regional Government of Extremadura, Spain. Coordination of 11 chapters and lead author of eight: Field Methodology, Species Phenology, Population Trends, Migratory Strategies, Home Range, Breeding Biology, Conservation Issues, and Climate Change. Tasks included bibliographical revision, data analysis (R, Qgis, e.g., survival analysis, spatial analysis) and content writing. | Regional Government of Extremadura, Spain |
| 2019/01 - 2019/05 | Project "Understanding the Remarkable Biodiversity of Príncipe Island", led by Fundação Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe). Fieldwork (2 months) and preparation of scientific report. Tasks included bird surveys throughout Príncipe Island, modelling species distribution using MaxEnt and bird population estimates (R), and preparing climatic and environmental variables as vector and raster layers (Qgis land cover, topography, remoteness index). | Fundação Príncipe, São Tomé and Príncipe |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/06/10 - 2024/06/14 | Formation continue de Botanique, MNHN Spécialité Ecologie, adaptation et diversité végétales | Translocations d’espèces végétales (Outros) | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France |
| 2017/09 - 2021/05 | Guest lecturer in one BSc and two MSc courses at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Lectures on statistical analysis applied to Trophic Ecology (1.5h/semester, 4 semesters) and laboratory classes on feeding habits of the Barn Owl (Tyto alba), including analysis of owl pellets with microscope (32h/semester, 1 semester). Lectures about the impacts of human activities on biodiversity with a particular focus on oceanic islands (3h/semester, 1 semester). | (Mestrado) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2024/10/10 | Article "Extinções de aves em Portugal terão afetado negativamente populações de outras espécies" at Wilder | Wilder |
| 2024/05/15 | Article "À conversa com um Ecólogo: Cinco perguntas a Filipa Coutinho Soares" at Wilder | Wilder |
| 2022/10/25 | Article "Island bird communities are becoming similar after extinctions and introductions" at Functional Ecologists, the official blog of Functional Ecology | Functional Ecologists |
| 2020/03/16 | Article "Desflorestação facilita a expansão de aves introduzidas na ilha de São Tomé" at Wilder | Wilder |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2023/09/29 - Current | Interview at RDP International to talk about the "Prémio de Doutoramento em Ecologia 2023" | Winner of the "Prémio de Doutoramento em Ecologia 2023" |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2024/09 - Current | Associate Editor for Diversity and Distributions | Diversity and Distributions |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017/10 - 2018/02 | Conservation projects led by Grupo Lobo (eNGO). Tasks included monitoring the Iberian wolf population (Canis lupus signatus), and bird and bat communities in wind farms located in the North of Portugal: camera trapping (including data analysis), sample collection (wolf scats) for genetic and diet analyses, identification of birds of prey (point counts) and bats (ultrasonic microphones). Elaboration of technical reports, including data analysis. | Grupo Lobo, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | 1st Prize of the Doctoral Award in Ecology 2023 by SPECO
Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia, Portugal
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| 2022 | Best PhD 2022 by Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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| 2021 | Best Oral Presentation at the 2nd BIODIV Annual Meeting
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2015 | Diploma of Academic Merit 2014/2015 by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2014 | Diploma of Academic Merit 2013/2014 by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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