Ruben Xavier Grave da Silva (5B19-951D-311C) | CIÊNCIAVITAE

Curriculum Vitae

Ruben Xavier Grave da Silva

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

Email addresses

rubenxavier@ua.pt (Professional)

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%
2024/12/22 Concluded	Divemaster (Outros) PADI Foundation, United States
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 (...)

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/11/23 - 2024/12/17	Membro do Grupo de Estudantes do Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (GED-CESAM)	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/12/22 - Current	Divemaster	Trilhos d'Água, Portugal
	Trilhos d'Água, Portugal
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
2022/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Effects of ocean warming and bleaching on the performance of a stenophagous nudibranch 2021.05303.BD 10.54499/2021.05303.BD Principal investigator Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
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

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/16 - 2026/01/15	Merging blue and green food systems - Using marine gammarid amphipods supplied with plant food processing side streams to produce n-3 LC-PUFA 2022.01620.PTDC 10.54499/2022.01620.PTDC Team member Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Silva, Ruben X.G.; Madeira, Diana; Cartaxana, P; Calado, Ricardo. "Too Hot to Handle: Effects of Marine Heatwaves and Bleaching on Cellular Stress and Reproduction in a Photosynthetic Sea Slug". Paper presented in Molluscs 2024: Molluscs on the edge, Perth, 2025. Published 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	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. 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	Duarte, Rafael C.; Acebes, Daniel; Madeira, Diana; Silva, Ruben X.G.; Fernandes, Joana F.; Ricardo, Fernando; Calado, Ricardo. "Examination of post-hatching starvation on oxidative stress response and larval life span in the marine ornamental shrimp, Lysmata seticaudata". Aquaculture 609 (2025): 742783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742783. 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742783 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 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 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
Manual	Silva, Ruben X.G.. Operações de produção e manutenção de animais para aquário. Portugal: FOR-MAR and BLUEBIO ALLIANCE. 2025. Accepted
Online resource	Silva, Ruben X.G.; Madeira, Diana; Cartaxana, P; Calado, Ricardo. Marine heatwaves and bleaching impact on a photosynthetic symbiont-bearing nudibranch (Dataset). 2024. https://zenodo.org/records/11149678. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11149678
Preprint	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

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
2025/05/01 - 2025/06/01	Ria Limpa - a cleaning of the Ria de Aveiro (2025/06/01 - 2025/06/01) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)	Trilhos d'Água, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2024/10/13	Ria Limpa - cleaning of Ria de Aveiro (2024/10/13 - 2024/10/13) Other (Member of the Organising Committee)	Trilhos d'Água, Portugal
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
2022/11/23 - 2024/12/17	Ruben Xavier Grave da Silva was a member of the GED-CESAM Coordination, having been part of the organizing team for the first CESAM Pitch or Perish contest and the team responsible for managing GED-CESAM’s social media. Coordinator	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
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

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2025/07/01 - 2025/07/31	Invited as expert to develop a formative module entitled "Operações de produção e manutenção de animais para aquário".	Bluebio Alliance - The Portuguese Network for Marine Bioresources and Biotech, Portugal FOR-MAR - Centro de formação profissional das pescas e do mar, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

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