Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Miguel Albuquerque da Costa Leal
Citation names
- Leal, Miguel Costa
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5718-0044-BF32
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0672-6251
- Google Scholar ID
- sfzXGBgAAAAJ&hl
- Researcher Id
- C-8611-2009
- Scopus Author Id
- 54907953500
Knowledge fields
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Fishery
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
French | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2014/09
Concluded
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Programa Doutoral em Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Trophic plasticity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovado |
2009
Concluded
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Ecologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Vertical dynamics of planktonic communities at Sofala Bank, Mozambique" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Sem dissertação (Processo de bolonha)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/07/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal | ||
2015/05/01 - 2016/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Switzerland |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2009/10/01 - 2010/09/30 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Bio3 - estudos e projetos em biologia e valorização dos recursos naturais lda, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2017/09/01 - 2019/06/30 | Bolseiro pós-doutoramento | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2017/01/01 - 2017/06/30 | Consultor | Bluebio Alliance, Portugal |
2014/10/01 - 2015/04/30 | Post-doctoral fellow | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
2010/12/01 - 2014/09/30 | PhD scholar | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/09/01 - 2019/06/30 | Dynamics of functional traits across ontogenetic and environmental gradients: From individuals to ecosystems
SFRH/BPD/115298/2016
Post-doc Fellow
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Cancelled
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2015 - 2018 | Vulnerability of marine tropical organisms to increasing ocean temperatures
SFRH/BD/92975/2013
Other
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2010 - 2014 | Trophic plasticity in coral nutrition – its relevance for marine biotechnology and coral reefs conservation
SFRH/BD/63783/2009
PhD Student Fellow
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/07 - Current | SmartBioR - Smart Valorization of Biological Marine Resources
CCDR
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2018/06 - 2021/05 | Rastreabilidade da Origem Geográfica como uma Via de Valorização Inteligente dos Recursos Marinhos Endógenos
02/SAICT/2017
Researcher
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Ongoing
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2015 - 2017 | Ecosystem consequences of eco-evolutionary change
EAWAG fellow
Principal investigator
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2015 - 2016 | LARVASOLE – Otimização do regime trófico de Solea em larvicultura
PROMAR
Post-doc Fellow
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2012 - 2015 | Metamorphosis does not reset embryonic and larval history. Clarifying the role of offspring provisioning and larval feeding
on early post-settlement performance of coastal marine invertebrates
PTDC/BIA-BIC/116871/2010
Researcher
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2012/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | SYnergies through Merging BIOlogical and biogeochemical expertise in COral REsearch
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/295191/EU
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European Commission
Concluded
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2011 - 2014 | RASTREMAR – Utilização de métodos moleculares para a rastreabilidade de produtos alimentares de origem marinha
PROMAR
Researcher
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2009 - 2010 | Southern Ocean Studies for Understanding Global – Climate Issues
MMA/MCTI/CNPq
Researcher
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2005 - 2008 | Peri-urban mangrove forests as filters and potential phytoremediators of domestic sewage in East África
INCO contrato nº. 510863
Other
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Concluded
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2005 - 2008 | Transboundary netwworks of marine protected areas for integrated conservation and sustainable development: biophysical, socio-economic
and governance assessment in East Africa
INCO contrato nº. 510862
Other
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2007 - 2009 | Ecosystem Survey Mozambique 2007 - Strengthening the knowledge base for implementing an ecosystem approach to marine fisheries
in developing countries
GCP/INT/003/NOR
Researcher
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2015 | Tracing trophic interactions in symbiotic anthozoans using stable isotopes | ASLO 2015 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
(Spain)
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2014 | The role of biogeography in marine natural products discovery | American Society of Pharmacognosy 2014 Annual Meeting
(United States)
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2013 | Trophic plasticity in the cnidarian-algal symbiosis | 1st mid-Atlantic SymbioFest
(United States)
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2013 | Biogeography in Marine Natural Products Research | 14th International Symposium and 8th European Conference on Marine Natural Products
(Spain)
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2013 | Variation of phytoplankton assemblages along the Mozambique coast as revealed by HPLC and microscopy | 8th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium
(Mozambique)
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2013 | Culturing sea slugs: why they matter? | World Congress of Malacology
(Portugal)
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2013 | Lower hypoxia thresholds of mollusk early life stages living in a warm acidified ocean | World Congress of Malacology
(Portugal)
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2013 | Shifts in the dominance between diatoms and cryptophytes during three late summers in the Bransfield Strait (Antarctic Peninsula) | XIth SCAR Biology Symposium
(Spain)
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2013 | Inferring trophic interactions in marine invertebrates from molecular-based gut content analyses. Transitioning to the mainstream, a decade of progress | 2nd International Symposium on the Molecular Detection of Trophic Interactions
(United States)
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2013 | Molecular assessment of feeding and digestion in zooxanthellate cnidarians | 2nd International Symposium on the Molecular Detection of Trophic Interactions
(United States)
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2013 | Herbivory in the symbiotic coral Oculina arbuscula assessed with stable isotopes and molecular trophic markers | 42nd Benthic Ecology Meeting
(United States)
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2013 | Molecular assessment of heterotrophy and prey digestion in symbiotic corals | ASLO 2013 Aquatic Sciences Meeting
(United States)
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2012 | The role of aquaculture in sustainable marine drug discovery - advantages and current challenges | AQUA 2012
(Czech Republic)
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2012 | Phytoplankton biomass and size-class distribution along the Mozambique coast: satellite imagery and HPLC pigments. | 9th AARSE conference |
2012 | Coral aquaculture: quality, quantity and sustainability | AQUA 2012 |
2012 | Coral imaging: distribution of zooxanthellae, photosynthetic activity and fluorescent proteins | 12th International Coral Reef Symposium
(Australia)
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2012 | A new perspective on the presence of cryptophytes in the surface waters of Bransfield Strait (Antarctic Peninsula) | International Polar Year Conference 2012
(Canada)
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2011 | New Marine Drugs from Marine Invertebrates in the 21st century – Where and What are we Bioprospecting? | World Aquaculture Society 2011
(Brazil)
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2010 | A Directiva Quadro da Água no contexto de Estudos de Impacte Ambiental de barragens: caso de estudo da barragem do Alvito | 4ª Conferência Nacional de Avaliação de Impactes (CNAI)
(Portugal)
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2010 | Dynamics of phytoplankton communities around the Antarctic Peninsula determined by HPLC-CHEMTAX analysis | SCAR OSC-2010
(Argentina)
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2010 | Estudo das comunidades de fitoplâncton em torno da Península Antárctica utilizando os pigmentos como biomarcadores taxonómicos | CBFic 2010
(Brazil)
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2010 | Improvement of bird and bat carcasses detection on wind farms using wildlife research dogs | Wind Wildlife Research Meeting VIII (NWCC)
(United States)
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2010 | Cão-biólogo: um contributo para a optimização das estimativas de mortalidade em parques eólicos | 12º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia (SPECO)
(Portugal)
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2009 | Distribution and vertical dynamis of planktonic communities at Sofala Bank, Mozambique | 6th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium
(Réunion)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2016 - 2017 | Landscape level trophic variation in two sympatric stickleback species
Co-supervisor
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Campus Brussel, Belgium
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2016 - 2017 | The effect of eutrophication on fish morphology, stoichiometry and community composition in Flanders
Co-supervisor
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Campus Brussel, Belgium
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2016 - 2016 | Enviornmental, ecological and evolutionary drivers of fatty acid biomarkers in stickleback
Supervisor
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EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Switzerland
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2016 - 2016 | Marine biodiversity and its socio-economic impact
Supervisor
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EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Switzerland
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2016 - 2016 | Ecological Stoichiometry as a tool to study phenotypic evolution
Supervisor
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EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Switzerland
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Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2013 - 2013 | Aquaculture Europe 2013 |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018 - Current | Food Research International (0963-9969) | Elsevier |
2018 - Current | Ecology Letters (1461-0248) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2018 - Current | Evolutionary Ecology (1573-8477) | Springer-Verlag |
2018 - Current | Food Research International (0963-9969) | Elsevier |
2018 - Current | Journal of Fish Biology (1095-8649) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2018 - Current | Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (1749-7345) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2018 - Current | Marine Ecology Progress Series (1616-1599) | Inter-Research Science Center |
2018 - Current | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (1364-0321) | Elsevier |
2017 - Current | Aquatic Biology (1864-7790) | Inter-Research Science Center |
2017 - Current | Biological Conservation (0006-3207) | Elsevier |
2017 - Current | Fish and Fisheries (1467-2979) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2016 - Current | Journal of The Royal Society Interface (1742-5662) | The Royal Society |
2016 - Current | Marine Biology (1432-1793) | Springer-Verlag |
2016 - Current | Marine Policy (0308-597X) | Elsevier |
2016 - Current | Molecular Ecology (1365-294X) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2016 - Current | Springer Plus | |
2016 - Current | Trends in Biotechnology (0167-7799) | Elsevier |
2015 - Current | African Journal of Marine Science (1814-2338) | National Inquiry Services Center (NISC) |
2015 - Current | Trends in Food Science & Technology (0924-2244) | Elsevier |
2015 - Current | Tropical Zoology (1970-9528) | Informa UK (Taylor & Francis) |
2014 - Current | Aquaculture (0044-8486) | Elsevier |
2014 - Current | Biology Open (2046-6390) | The Company of Biologists |
2014 - Current | Bulletin of Marine Science | |
2014 - Current | Coral Reefs (1432-0975) | Springer-Verlag |
2014 - Current | Journal of Experimental Biology (1477-9145) | The Company of Biologists |
2014 - Current | Journal of Thermal Biology (0306-4565) | Elsevier |
2014 - Current | Marine and Freshwater Research (1323-1650) | CSIRO Publishing |
2014 - Current | Scientific Reports (2045-2322) | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
2014 - Current | World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (1573-0972) | Springer-Verlag |
2013 - Current | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (1469-7769) | Cambridge University Press |
2013 - Current | Marine Drugs (1660-3397) | MDPI AG |
2013 - Current | Molecular Ecology Resources (1755-0998) | Wiley (Blackwell Publishing) |
2013 - Current | Oceanography Open Access (2332-2632) | OMICS Publishing Group |
Other jury / evaluation
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2017 - Current | Evaluation research proposals | Agence nationale de la recherche, France |
2015 - Current | Evaluation of research proposals | National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, United States |
2013 - Current | Evaluation research proposals | Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2017 | Post-doctoral fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2015 | Eawag Post-doctoral Fellow
EAWAG - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Switzerland
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2013 | Student grant |
2012 | Student Grant
International Society for Coral Reef Studies, United States
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2012 | Best student poster award
European Aquaculture Society, Belgium
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2009 | Best Student Poster Award for "Horizontal distribution and vertical migration of crustacean decapod and stomatopod larvae
at Sofala Bank, Mozambique" (Leal MC, Brotas V, Paula J).
Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, Tanzania
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2009 | Student Merith Scholarship
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2009 | PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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