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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ruben Xavier Grave da Silva

Citation names

  • Silva, Ruben X.G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5B19-951D-311C
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6716-7700

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 919385341 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro, nº40, 3840-553, Santo André, Vagos, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese gestual language Elementary (A2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31
Ongoing
 Biology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2025/04/17 - 2025/05/12
Concluded
 Google Prompting Essentials (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Coursera Inc, United States
 100%
2024/07/05
Concluded
 Sustainable Aquaculture for Low Trophic Species (Postgraduate Certificate)
UiT Norges arktiske universitet Rettsgenetisk senter, Norway
2022/07/16
Concluded
 GLOBAL CHANGES IN TRANSITIONAL SYSTEMS (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 19 out of 20
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/12
Concluded
 Biomarkers an user friendly approach, Advanced course on biomarkers (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 16 out of 20
2022/06/21 - 2022/06/28
Concluded
 Advanced course on “Data Analysis using R” (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 18 out of 20
2022/02/28 - 2022/03/04
Concluded
 Experimental Design and Analysis of Multivariate Data (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/03/16 - 2021/12/31
Concluded
 Advanced Course in Scientific Investigation (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09
Concluded
 Advanced Course on Scientific Writing and Communication (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2018/09/12 - 2021/02/08
Concluded
 Applied Marine Biology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Prevalence and photobiology of photosynthetic endosymbionts of Exaiptasia diaphana in Berghia stephanieae" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2020/03/24
Concluded
 Do Básico ao Avançado - O Curso Completo de Microsoft Excel (Outros)
Udemy Inc, United States
2019/12/02
Concluded
 R programming with Statistics for Data science (Outros)
Udemy Inc, United States
2015/09/07 - 2018/06/18
Concluded
 Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03/01 - 2021/06/30 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
(...)

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/01/01 - Current PhD Student Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/05 - 2019/08 Volunteer Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - 2021/12/31 AquaMMIn - Development and validation of a modular integrated multi-trophic aquaculture system for marine and brackish water species
DBIO/BL-5/AQUAMMIN-2021
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Silva, Ruben; Madeira, Diana; Cartaxana, P; Calado, Ricardo. Corresponding author: Silva, Ruben. "Marine heatwave driven bleaching and its impacts on the reproduction of the stenophagous nudibranch Berghia stephanieae". Paper presented in Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins and other Marine Invertebrates, 2023, Woods Hole, 2023.
Conference poster
  1. Silva, Ruben X. G.; Madeira, Diana; Cartaxana, P; Calado, Ricardo. Corresponding author: Calado, Ricardo. "Reproduction in a changing world: The transgenerational impacts of bleaching in the stenophagous nudibranch Berghia stephanieae". Paper presented in EcoSummit 2023 Building a sustainable and desirable future: Adapting to a changing land and sea-scape, 2023.
  2. Silva, Ruben X. G.; Cartaxana, P; Calado, Ricardo. Corresponding author: Calado, Ricardo. "Stenophagous Organisms Under Climate Change, the Nudibranch Berghia Stephanieae as a Case Study". Paper presented in Expanding Ocean Frontiers 2022 (part of the International Symposium on Marine Sciences 2022), 2022.
Journal article
  1. Ricardo Calado; Miguel C. Leal; Ruben X. G. Silva; Mara Borba; António Ferro; Mariana Almeida; Diana Madeira; Helena Vieira. "Living Coral Displays, Research Laboratories, and Biobanks as Important Reservoirs of Chemodiversity with Potential for Biodiscovery". Marine Drugs (2025): https://doi.org/10.3390/md23020089.
    10.3390/md23020089
  2. Silva, Ruben X. G.; Madeira, Diana; Cartaxana, Paulo; Calado, Ricardo. "Assessing the Trophic Impact of Bleaching: The Model Pair Berghia stephanieae/Exaiptasia diaphana". Animals 13 2 (2023): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13020291.
    10.3390/ani13020291
  3. Silva, Ruben X. G.; Cartaxana, Paulo; Calado, Ricardo. Corresponding author: Calado, Ricardo. "Prevalence and Photobiology of Photosynthetic Dinoflagellate Endosymbionts in the Nudibranch Berghia stephanieae". Animals 11 8 (2021): 2200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11082200.
    Published • 10.3390/ani11082200
Preprint
  1. Ricardo Calado; Miguel C. Leal; Ruben X. G. Silva; Mara Borba; António Ferro; Mariana Almeida; Diana Madeira; Helena Vieira. "Living Coral Displays, Research Laboratories, and Biobanks as Important Reservoirs of Chemodiversity with Potential for Biodiscovery". 2025. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.1029.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202501.1029.v1

Other

Physical object
  1. Silva, Ruben; Calado, Ricardo. "Business model based on nudibranch production". 2023. Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/11/27 Too Hot to Handle: Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Bleaching on Cellular Stress and Reproduction in a Photosynthetic Sea Slug Molluscs 2024: Molluscs on the edge
The Malacological Society of Australasia (Perth, Australia)
2023/10/20 Marine heatwave driven bleaching and its impacts on the reproduction of the stenophagous nudibranch Berghia stephanieae Developmental Biology of Sea Urchins and other Marine Invertebrates, 2023
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, United States)
2023/05/30 Invited speaker for the course of Produção de Organismos Ornamentais in the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Class for the course of Produção de Organismos Ornamentais
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Peniche, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018/12 - 2019/02 Member of the organizing team of the event Plantar o Futuro 2018, where University of Aveiro students adopted an autochthonous tree in December to be replanted in February. (2018/12 - 2019/02)
Other
 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Agora Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/05/04 - 2023/05/06 Inveted speaker lecturing a workshop in Life Support Systems in the conference Jornadas do Mar 2023
Workshop
 Jornadas do Mar 2023
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
2020/09/22 - 2020/10/30 Part of the acceleration program of 2020 Blue Bio Value with the project "ArtiReef"
Workshop
 Blue Bio Value Acceleration
Fábrica de Startups SA, Portugal
2020/02/13 - 2020/02/15 Winner of Blue Bio Value Ideation - Aveiro (2020) with the project "ArtiReef"
Workshop
 Blue Bio Value Ideation - Aveiro
Fábrica de Startups SA, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Volunteer at the SmartBioR - Smart Valorization of Biological Marine Resources data collection campaigns.
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Volunteer at the ValorMar -Integral Valorization of Marine Resources: Potential, Technological Innovation and New Applications data collection campaigns.
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Volunteer at a project to achieve onshore housing in recirculated aquaculture systems (RAS) of Atlantic salmon juveniles (Salmo salar), helping with data collection campaigns, as well as, organism translocation and acclimation.
Other
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
2019/11/11 - 2019/11/13 Assembly of a display aquarium at Business2Sea, Oporto, as part of the project "Living logo" by CESAM, University of Aveiro
Congress
 Business2Sea
Fórum Oceano Associação da Economia do Mar, Portugal
2019/10/10 - 2019/10/12 Exhibitor at TechDays 2019, where a display aquarium was assembled and mantained to let know of the project "Living logo" by CESAM, University of Aveiro
Exhibition
 TechDays
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/04/17 - 2018/04/17 Workshop as part of the I Congresso bérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia - Aveiro entitled "Sistemas de suporte de vida para investigação em ecologia marinha aplicada, aquacultura e biotecnologia azul".
Workshop
 I Congresso Ibérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia – Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2018/04 - 2018/04 Workshop as part of the I Congresso Ibérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia - Aveiro entitled "Aquariofilia ? Como tirar partido do hobby".
Workshop
 I Congresso Ibérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia – Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2018/03/16 - 2018/03/18 Participation in I Congresso Ibérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia - Aveiro
Congress
 I Congresso Ibérico de Aquariofilia e Aquariologia – Aveiro
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2017/04/07 - 2017/04/11 Participation in XX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Meeting
 XX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2017/04 - 2017/04 Workshop as part of XX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia entitled "Identificação e história natural de ictiofauna de mar profundo".
Workshop
 XX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Biologia, Portugal
2016/03/18 - 2016/03/22 Participation in XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia - Coimbra
Meeting
 XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/03 - 2016/03 Workshop as part of XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia entitled "Como fazer um poster científico".
Workshop
 XIX Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/03/18 - 2021/07/31 Coordination of the team in charge of 2021 Censos at Santo André de Vagos parish.
Coordinator
 Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 Stingray fund
Flying Sharks Consultoria e Inovação Lda, Portugal
2023 Stingray fund
Flying Sharks Consultoria e Inovação Lda, Portugal