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I am an Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona and a researcher in its School of Life Sciences, specializing in animal welfare, biodiversity conservation, and the study of human–animal relationships. I hold a PhD in Biology from the University of Lisbon (2014) and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Universidade Lusófona (2005). Since 2009, my work has combined scientific research with applied fieldwork, particularly in the management of feral cat colonies, in collaboration with national and international animal welfare organizations. My research explores the interface between human communities and animal populations, integrating population control strategies into biodiversity preservation and urban wildlife management. I also lecture in the Postgraduate Program in Animal Welfare at the University of Porto, where I teach modules for municipal veterinarians. As a trainer and consultant for Animais de Rua, a public-interest organization, I work with municipalities to design and implement sterilization programs for stray animals, and I represent the organization in the Eurogroup for Animals’ Cats & Dogs working group.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
ANA SOFIA DA SILVA VALBORDO ROIS

Citation names

  • Rois, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2C1E-8EA0-034D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2291-9811

Email addresses

  • ana.rois@ulusofona.pt (Professional)
  • ana.rois@ulusofona.pt (Personal)

Addresses

  • Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande, 376 , EPCV, 1749-024, Lisboa , Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Veterinary Sciences
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Botany
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Reproductive Biology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014
Concluded
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Strategies for Conservation of Rare and Endemic Species: Characterization of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation and Unusual Reproductive Biology of Coastal Species from Limonium ovalifolium and Limonium binervosum Complexes (Plumbaginaceae)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good with Distinction
2005
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
"“The Effects of Population Demography Parameters on the Reproductive Success in the Ophrys genus (Orchidaceae)”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Psicologia e Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2014/07/19 - 2023/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/15 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2009/03/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Psicologia e Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09 - Current Diretora Executiva Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal
Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal
2019/09/15 - Current Representante no Grupo Cats and Dogs Eurogroup for Animals , Belgium
Eurogroup for Animals , Belgium

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/09/01 - Current Consultor na Área do Bem-Estar Animal Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal
Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2018/06/30 Scientific consultant and trainer of the project "Pelucia diversus", describing and classifying biodiversity. Ciência Viva, Portugal
2009/10/01 - 2014/07/18 PhD student in Biology: “Strategies for conservation of rare and endemic species:characterization of genetic and epigenetic variation of the unusual reproductive biology of the Portuguese coastline Li Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2011/10/03 - 2013/06/30 Trainer of “Mãos na Ciência” programe Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2012/09/03 - 2012/12/21 Internship: CpDNA molecular markers development and analysis in Limonium species Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben, Germany
2012/01/01 - 2012/03/01 Internship: Microsatellite development and analysis in Limonium species Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben, Germany
2010/11/01 - 2011/12/08 Internship: Flow Cytometry Seed Screening in Limonium species Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben, Germany
2010/11/01 - 2011/12/08 Internship: Development of Limonium AFLP/MSAP molecular markers University of Wales Aberystwyth Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences, United Kingdom
2006/06/01 - 2007/11/01 Research position grant “Genotype characterisation of populations of Cynara cardunculus L. var. altilis DC. used as a milk clotting plant for Portuguese PDO cheese” Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2005/08/01 Graduation student - Leonardo Da Vinci grant: “The Effects of Population Demography Parameters on the Reproductive Success in the Ophrys genus (Orchidaceae)” Université catholique de Louvai Ecole de Biologie, Belgium
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2026 - Current 2024.17955.PEX
2024.17955
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2009/09/15 - 2014/07/18 Strategies for Conservation of Rare and Endemic Species: Characterization of Genetic and Epigenetic Variation and Unusual Reproductive Biology of Coastal Species from Limonium ovalifolium and Limonium binervosum Complexes (Plumbaginaceae).
SFRH/BD/62542/2009
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Concluded
2005/01/06 - 2007/06/30 Genotype characterization of populations of Cynara cardunculus L. var. altilis DC. used as a milk clotting plant for Portuguese PDO cheese
POCI/BIA/55681/2004
Other
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01 - 2021/12 Unravelling the combined use of microbial and soil technologies to optimize edible halophyte cultivation in underused saline soil
LEAF/MycoHaloph
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Agronomia Alimentos Ambiente e Paisagem, Portugal
Concluded
2016/09/15 - 2019/12/15 Limonium spp. as a model for autonomous apomixis: characterization of genetic-molecular factors distinguishing apomictic from sexual reproductive processes
PTDC/AGR-PRO/4285/2014
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 240 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/AGR/UI0240/2011
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Agronomia Alimentos Ambiente e Paisagem, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. "COSTA DO CABO CARVOEIRO AO BALEAL". In In J. Farminhão (Ed.), Sítios de Interesse Botânico de Portugal Continental. Coleção «Botânica em Português» , Tomo 2., 33-39. Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa Nacional, 2021.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Navarro-Torre, Salvadora; Nogales, Amaia; Abreu, Maria Manuela; Santos, Erika; Cortinhas, Ana; Fors, Rosalba; Bailly, Marion ; Rois, Ana. "Explorando el uso combinado de tecnologías microbianas y de Suelos para optimizar el crecimiento de Limonium algarvense en suelos salinos". Paper presented in XXIX Congreso Sociedad Española de Microbiología: Micoorganismos- un universo en continua evolución, Burgos, 2023.
    Published
  2. Rois, Ana; Sádio, Flávio; Cortinhas, Ana; Arsénio, Pedro Miguel Ramos; Costa, Jóse Carlos; Espírito-Santo, Dalíla; Caperta, Ana D. "Floral heteromorphisms and phylogeographic patterns of halophytes Limonium vulgare and related taxa in coastal Portugal". Paper presented in 45th annual conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 2015.
    Published • 10.1142/9789814282475_0074
  3. Cortinhas, Ana; Caperta, Ana D; Espírito-Santo, Dalíla; Silva, Vasco; Ferreira, Ana; Rois, Ana; Costa, José Carlos; Arsénio, Pedro. "Cliff-dwelling halophyte Limonium multiflorum Erben morphological and habitat assessment.". Paper presented in Cost Action FA0901– Final Meeting. Putting halophytes to work – from Genes to ecosystems., Coimbra, 2014.
  4. Rois, Ana; Cortinhas, Ana; Erben, Matthias; Espírito-Santo, Dalíla; Sharbel, Timothy F; Caperta, Ana D. "High intra- and low inter-populational levels of genetic variation in the coastal Limonium diploid and tetraploid species of Portugal". Paper presented in XXXVIII Portuguese Genetics Conference, Por, 2013.
Conference paper
  1. Rois, Ana. "Utilization of Limonium ex situ collections to study the occurrence of apomixis". Paper presented in The European Botanic Gardens Congress, EuroGard VIII, Botanic Gardens, People and Plants for a Sustainable World, Lisboa, Portugal., Lisboa, 2018.
Conference poster
  1. Pires, Ana Elisabete; Rois, Ana; Blaschikoff, Ludmilla; Catita, Joana; Alves, Margarida; Simões, Fernanda; Ginja, Catarina; Ramilo, David; André Duarte Belchior Pereira. "CREOLEs – Genomics and Immunity of Cape Verde Stray Dogs". Paper presented in III Meeting AL4ANIMALS, 2024.
  2. Nogales, Amaia; Navarro-Torre, Salvadora; Abreu, Maria Manuela; Santos, Erika; Cortinhas, Ana; Fors, Rosalba; Bailly, Marion ; Rois, Ana; Caperta, AD. "Growing Resilient Plants in Saline Soils: Soil and Microbial Techniques to Cultivate Sea Lavander Limonium algarvense Erben (Plumbaginaceae)". Paper presented in I Encontro Anual do LEAF-ISA, ULisboa, 2023.
  3. Rois, Ana; Sampaio, Pedro; Monteiro, Filipa; Pais, M. Salomé; Cotrim, HC. "Genotype characterisation of populations of Cynara cardunculus L. var. altilis DC. used as a milk clotting plant for Portuguese PDO cheese". Paper presented in 6th Biennial Conference of Systematics Association, 28-31 August 2007, Edinburgh (UK), 2007.
Journal article
  1. Pereira, André; Cruz, Adrian; Novo, Teresa; Cardoso, Ana; Oliva, Ana; Róis, Ana; Saragoça, Ana; et al. "Epidemiological and molecular characterisation of flea infestations in dogs and cats in mainland Portugal". Parasites & Vectors 18 1 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-06904-x.
    Published • 10.1186/s13071-025-06904-x
  2. Elvira Hörandl; Diego Hojsgaard; Ana Caperta; Sofia I. R. Conceição; Ana Sofia Róis; Timothy Dickinson; Terezie Mandáková; et al. "Apomixis in Systematics, Evolution and Phylogenetics of Angiosperms: Current Developments and Prospects". Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/07352689.2024.2396259.
    10.1080/07352689.2024.2396259
  3. Caperta, Ana D.; Fernandes, Isabel; Conceição, Sofia I. R.; Marques, Isabel; Róis, Ana S.; Paulo, Octávio S.. "Ovule Transcriptome Analysis Discloses Deregulation of Genes and Pathways in Sexual and Apomictic Limonium Species (Plumbaginaceae)". Genes 14 4 (2023): 901. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes14040901.
    Published • 10.3390/genes14040901
  4. Rois, Ana; Guara-Requena, Miguel; Conceição, Sofia I.R.; Cortinhas, Ana; Silva-Pando, Francisco Javier; Pina, Ana; Ana D Caperta. Corresponding author: Ana D Caperta. "Taxonomic and genetic relationships between agamospermous tetraploid Limonium taxa (Plumbaginaceae) reveal the existence of Limonium arsenii-costae species nova". Taxon (2023):
    Submitted
  5. Caperta, Ana D.; Róis, Ana S.; Teixeira, Generosa; Garcia-Caparros, Pedro; Flowers, Timothy J.. "Secretory structures in plants: lessons from the Plumbaginaceae on their origin, evolution and roles in stress tolerance". Plant, Cell & Environment (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.13825.
    Published • 10.1111/pce.13825
  6. Rois, Ana. "Nonreduction via meiotic restitution and pollen heterogeneity may explain residual male fertility in triploid marine halophyte Limonium algarvense (Plumbaginaceae)". Caryologia (2019):
    Published
  7. Conceição, S.I.R.; Róis, A.S.; Caperta, A.D.. "Nonreduction via meiotic restitution and pollen heterogeneity may explain residual male fertility in triploid marine halophyte Limonium algarvense (Plumbaginaceae)". Caryologia 72 3 (2019): 53-62. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85079841832&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.13128/caryologia-761
  8. Caperta, Ana D.; Conceição, Sofia I.R.; Róis, Ana S.; Loureiro, João; Castro, Sílvia. "Cytogenetic features of sexual and asexual Limonium taxa (Plumbaginaceae)". Taxon 67 6 (2018): 1143-1152. http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/676.10.
    Published • 10.12705/676.10
  9. Conceição, Sofia I.R.; Róis, Ana Sofia; Caperta, Ana D.. "Limonium homoploid and heteroploid intra- and interspecific crosses unveil seed anomalies and neopolyploidy related to sexual and/or apomictic reproduction". Taxon 67 6 (2018): 1153-1162. http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/676.11.
    Published • 10.12705/676.11
  10. Róis, Ana S.; Castro, Sílvia; Loureiro, João; Sádio, Flávio; Rhazi, Laila; Guara-Requena, Miguel; Caperta, Ana D.. "Genome sizes and phylogenetic relationships suggest recent divergence of closely related species of the Limonium vulgare complex (Plumbaginaceae)". Plant Systematics and Evolution 304 8 (2018): 955-967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00606-018-1524-1.
    Published • 10.1007/s00606-018-1524-1
  11. Caperta, Ana D.; Castro, Sílvia; Loureiro, João; Róis, Ana S.; Conceição, Sofia; Costa, Joana; Rhazi, Laila; Espírito Santo, Dalila; Arsénio, Pedro. "Biogeographical, ecological and ploidy variation in related asexual and sexualLimoniumtaxa (Plumbaginaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12498.
    Published • 10.1111/boj.12498
  12. Róis, Ana; Caperta, Ana. "Cytohistological Analyses of Mega-sporogenesis and Gametogenesis in Ovules of Limonium spp.". BIO-PROTOCOL 6 21 (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.21769/bioprotoc.1983.
    Published • 10.21769/bioprotoc.1983
  13. Róis, Ana Sofia; Sádio, Flávio; Paulo, Octávio S.; Teixeira, Generosa; Paes, Ana Paula; Espírito-Santo, Dalila; Sharbel, Timothy F.; Caperta, Ana D.. "Phylogeography and modes of reproduction in diploid and tetraploid halophytes ofLimoniumspecies (Plumbaginaceae): evidence for a pattern of geographical parthenogenesis". Annals of Botany 117 1 (2015): 37-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcv138.
    Published • 10.1093/aob/mcv138
  14. Caperta, Ana D.; Espírito-Santo, M. Dalila; Silva, Vasco; Ferreira, Ana; Paes, Ana P.; Róis, Ana S.; Costa, José C.; Arsénio, Pedro. "Habitat specificity of a threatened and endemic, cliff-dwelling halophyte". AoB PLANTS 6 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plu032.
    Published • 10.1093/aobpla/plu032
  15. Róis, Ana; Rodríguez López, Carlos M; Cortinhas, Ana; Erben, Matthias; Espírito-Santo, Dalila; Wilkinson, Michael J; Caperta, Ana D. "Epigenetic rather than genetic factors may explain phenotypic divergence between coastal populations of diploid and tetraploid Limonium spp. (Plumbaginaceae) in Portugal". BMC Plant Biology 13 1 (2013): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-13-205.
    Published • 10.1186/1471-2229-13-205
  16. Róis, Ana Sofia; Teixeira, Generosa; Sharbel, Timothy F.; Fuchs, Jörg; Martins, Sérgio; Espírito-Santo, Dalila; Caperta, Ana D.. "Male fertility versus sterility, cytotype, and DNA quantitative variation in seed production in diploid and tetraploid sea lavenders (Limonium sp., Plumbaginaceae) reveal diversity in reproduction modes". Sexual Plant Reproduction 25 4 (2012): 305-318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00497-012-0199-y.
    Published • 10.1007/s00497-012-0199-y
  17. Vandewoestijne, S.; Róis, A. S.; Caperta, A.; Baguette, M.; Tyteca, D.. "Effects of individual and population parameters on reproductive success in three sexually deceptive orchid species". Plant Biology 11 3 (2009): 454-463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00125.x.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00125.x
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07 Matilde Santos, David W. Ramilo, Ana Róis, Jéssica Vendas, Joana Catita, Ludmilla Blaschikoff, Octavio Serra, Catarina Ginja, Margarida Alves, André Pereira, Ana Elisabete Pires (2025). CreoleDogs - GENOMICS, HERITAGE AND HEALTH OF CREOLE DOGS FROM CAPE VERD. FMVet Research Meetings 2025
Universidade Lusofona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2025 Compreender os gatos errantes: implicações para a biodiversidade, saúde e comunidades humanas em Portugal. V CONFERÊNCIA BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE. Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisboa V CONFERÊNCIA BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE.
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - Current Impacto da presença de gatos errantes na biodiversidade local.
Supervisor
 Biologia (Degree)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Biologia reprodutiva de espécies da coleção ex-situ de Limonium spp.
Supervisor
 Biologia (Other)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Biologia reprodutiva de espécies da coleção ex-situ de Limonium spp.
Supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Limonium spp. como modelo para a apomixia autónoma: caracterização de factores genéticos moleculares que determinam processos reprodutivos apomíticos versus sexuais
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2014 - 2016 Biogeographical patterns of apomictic Limonium spp
Co-supervisor
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30 WSAVA Shelter Medicine Workshop 2023 - Compreender as necessidades e os princípios de gestão de projectos de abate de animais de alto bem-estar; Compreender os desafios enfrentados na implementação da medicina de abrigo; Inspirar todos a cumprir ou exceder as normas da American Shelter Vet (ASV) sempre que possível; Envolver veterinários locais, funcionários do governo local, gestores de abrigos e pessoal em questões práticas de proteção animal e medicina de abrigos; Liderar a comunidade regional em matéria de saúde pública, proteção dos animais e c (2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01 THE LINK - Conference Lisbon / Conferencia Lisboa - The Link between Animal abuse and Violence among People / A ligação entre os maus tratos a animais e a Violencia entre pessoas. (2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019 - 2019 Genome sizes and phylogenetic relationships point out to a recent divergence of closely related species of the Limonium vulgare complex (Plumbaginaceae)
Congress
 Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals, Lisboa, Portugal, July 29th to August 2nd, 2019
2018 - 2018 Communication "Utilization of Limonium ex situ collections to study the occurrence of apomixis".
Congress
 EUROGARD VIII – Eight European Botanic Gardens Congress: Botanic Gardens, People and Plants for a Sustainable World
2017 - 2017 Communication "Genome size differences, cytological features and chromatin organization in diploid and polyploid Limonium complexes
Congress
 Third BioSyst.EU meeting, Sweden
2016 - 2016 Interspecific relationships in the halophyte Limonium vulgare and related taxa (Plumbaginaceae) using the ITS1 marker.
Seminar
 XXI Seminario de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución. Sitges, Spain, October – 3rd to 5 th, 2016
2015 - 2015 Morphologic and ecological aspects of Limonium spp. occurring in Portugal.
Congress
 EuroGard VII : Les jardins botaniques européens et la Décennie de la biodiversité, défis et responsabilités pour les objectifs 2020, Paris, France, 6-10 July 2015
2014 - 2014 Sex and apomixis shape chloroplast DNA variation patterns in diploid and tetraploid Limonium spp..
Congress
 23rd International Congress on Sexual Plant Reproduction, Porto, Portugal, July - 13th to 18th, 2014.
2014 - 2014 Diploids and tetraploids Limonium spp. halophytes show contrasting reproduction modes.
Symposium
 COST Action FA0901, Final Meeting, University of Coimbra, Portugal, April - 9th to 10th, 2014
2013 - 2013 Ecological indicators for in situ conservation of cliff dwelling endemic sea lavender Limonium multiflorum Erben.
Conference
 COST Workshop and Conference "Utilization and protection of halophytes and salt-affected landscapes", Kecskemét, Hungary September - 4th to 6th, 2013.
2013 - 2013 High intra- and low inter-populational levels of genetic variation in the coastal Limonium diploid and tetraploid species of Portugal
Meeting
 XXXVIII Jornadas Portuguesas de Genética, Porto, Portugal, June - 4th to 5th, 2013
2012 - 2012 Male sporogenesis and gametogenesis in Limonium species (Plumbaginaceae)
Symposium
 Symposium - Everything you want to know about Plant Sex but were afraid to ask, European Plant Reproduction Research Network Harnessing Plant Reproduction for crop improvement (HAPRECI), Porto, Portugal, July - 9th to 11th, 2012
2012 - 2012 Epigenetic variation in species of the Limonium ovalifolium complex (Plumbaginaceae)
Meeting
 XXXVII Jornadas Portuguesas de Genética, Lisboa, Portugal, May 28 – 30th 2012
2011 - 2011 Cytogenetic diversity and ploidy variation in diploid and polyploid Limonium species
Congress
 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology in Tübingen, Germany, 20 – 25th August 2011

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025/07/16 Arguente das provas de Mestrado em Psicologia Social e das Organizações, da Universidade Lusófona, da aluna Ana Sofia Machado, “Colaboradores de quatro patas: Impacto das políticas Pet-friendly no bem-estar dos trabalhadores”. Julho 2025 – 15 valores.
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Sofia Machado (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Membro do Conselho Eco-Escolas (Eco-Conselho) da Universidade Lusófona
Member

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Investigadora responsável via Universidade Lusófona no Projeto - Operação Integrada Local do PRR do Poceirão e Marateca para o Plano de Ação 27
2009/09/01 - Current Consultora na área do bem-estar animal na gestão da implementação de campanhas de esterilização de gatos errantes em Portugal continental em colaboração com o ICNF, autarquias e ONG nacionais e internacionais.
2023/01/01 - 2023/12/15 Consultoria nos cursos de formação de gestão de canídeos em ambiente de abrigo e implementação do programa CED, com os municípios de Santarém, Tavira, Benavente e Santa Cruz das Flores. Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2025 - Current Mestrado em Gestão e Conservação de Recursos Naturais Beatriz Mendonça da Fonseca

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/01/01 - Current Campanhas CED com recolha de amostras biológicas para os trabalhos em curso. Campanhas de esterilização efetuadas nos municípios de Alcácer do Sal, Grândola, Benavente, Palmela, Setúbal e Tavira. Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2023/04/10 - 2023/04/25 Campanha de Esterilização de Gatos Errantes na Ilha das Flores (Açores). Durante 15 dias foi implementado o programa CED (Capturar-Esterilizar-Devolver) na Ilha das Flores, pela Associação Animais de Rua, em colaboração com as autarquias locais, tendo sido recolhido material biológico (dejetos, sangue, tecido biológico, parasitas), para os estudos em curso na Universidade Lusófona. Associação Animais de Rua , Portugal

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 EU Dog & Cat Alliance Award of Merit prize via Associação Animais de Rua
Dogs Trust, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2009 Research scholarship - SFRH/BD/62542/2009 by FCT - “Strategies for conservation of rare and endemic species:characterization of genetic and epigenetic variation of the unusual reproductive biology of the Portuguese coastline Limonium complexes”
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2006 Research scholarship - Team member of POCI/BIA/55681/2004 project by FCT - "Genotype characterisation of populations of Cynara cardunculus L. var. altilis DC. used as a milk clotting plant for Portuguese PDO cheese”.
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2004 Student scholarship - 2004/2005 - Leonardo Da Vinci grant: “The Effects of Population Demography Parameters on the Reproductive Success in the Ophrys genus (Orchidaceae)”
European Commission, Belgium