Personal identification

Full name

Carlos Manuel Álvares Pereira do Espírito Santo

Date of birth

1991/09/29

Gender

Male

Citation names

• Espírito-Santo, Carlos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

831D-A37C-7195

ORCID iD

0000-0002-3315-9072

Google Scholar ID

YqcCth0AAAAJ&hl

Researcher Id

LKN-0461-2024

Scopus Author Id

58486206600

Email addresses

• csanto@ciimar.up.pt (Professional)
• csanto@ciimar.up.pt (Professional)
• carlos.esanto91@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

• https://www.ciimar.up.pt/pt-pt/members/carlos-espirito-santo/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

• Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Fishery
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Freshwater Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

	Degree	Classification
2020/10 - 2025/03/31 Concluded	Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "The effects of induced swimming activity in the performance and welfare of cultured fish" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/10 - 2014/12 Concluded	Molecular Genetics (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Effects of increasing allostatic load in stress physiology of Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) and Sea bream (Sparus aurata L.)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2009/09 - 2012/09 Concluded	Biochemistry (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	13

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/04/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/10 - 2025/03/31	PhD student	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2016/08 - 2018/01	Research grant	Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund Berlin eV, Germany
	Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund Berlin eV, Germany

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025/08/10 - Current	SAFE - Reducing the environmental impact of freshwater aquaculture by applying circular economy approaches 101084549 Research Fellow Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Ongoing
2021/03/29 - 2025/03/28	CONTRIBUT - Conversion of dietary tributyrin in rainbow trout PTDC/BAA-AGR/3550/2020 10.54499/PTDC/BAA-AGR/3550/2020 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2020/10 - 2024/10	Blue Young Talents PhD UI/BD/150911/2021	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2013/09/01 - 2014/07/31	COPEWELL - A new integrative framework for the study of fish welfare based on the concepts of allostasis, appraisal and coping styles 265957 Master Student Fellow Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands	European Union

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2016/08/01 - 2018/01/31	IMPRESS - Improved production strategies for endangered freshwater species 642893 Research Fellow Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund Berlin eV, Germany	European Union Concluded

Publications

Journal article

Carlos Espírito-Santo; Carmen Alburquerque; Thaís Cavalheri; Francisco A. Guardiola; Rodrigo O. A. Ozório; Leonardo J. Magnoni. "Induced swimming reduced stress and modulated immune response and antioxidant status in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)". Fish Physiology and Biochemistry (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-025-01569-w. 10.1007/s10695-025-01569-w Carlos Espírito-Santo; Francisco A. Guardiola; Rodrigo O. A. Ozório; Leonardo J. Magnoni. "Induced swimming in European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax): effects on the stress response, immune, and antioxidant status". Fish Physiology and Biochemistry (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-025-01474-2. 10.1007/s10695-025-01474-2 Magnoni, Leonardo J.; Cousin, Xavier; Leguen, Isabelle; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Clota, Frédéric; Lallement, Stéphane; Bégout, Marie-Laure. "Early rearing of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) with mild current enrichment modifies fish swimming behavior without altering their growth performance". Physiology & Behavior 289 (2025): 114742. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114742. 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114742 Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Guardiola, Francisco A.; Ozório, Rodrigo O.A.; Magnoni, Leonardo J.. "Short-term induced swimming activity enhanced innate immune parameters and antioxidant status of European eel (Anguilla anguilla)". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 296 (2024): 111680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111680. 10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111680 Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Alburquerque, Carmen; Guardiola, Francisco A.; Ozório, Rodrigo O.A.; Magnoni, Leonardo J.. "Induced swimming modified the antioxidant status of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 269 (2024): 110893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2023.110893. 10.1016/j.cbpb.2023.110893 Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Guardiola, Francisco A.; Ozório, Rodrigo O.A.; Magnoni, Leonardo J.. "Short-term swimming up-regulates pro-inflammatory mediators and cytokines in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 284 (2023): 111487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111487. 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111487 Magnoni, Leonardo Julian; Silva-Brito, Francisca; Cavalheri, Thais; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Palma, Mariana; Ozório, Rodrigo; Panserat, Stephane; Morais, Sofia; Viegas, Ivan. "Dietary tributyrin supplementation enhances the immune and antioxidant responses of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) without changes in fish performance". Aquaculture Reports 32 (2023): 101735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2023.101735. 10.1016/j.aqrep.2023.101735 Cámara Ruiz, Maria; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Mai, Alfons; Gessner, J¿rn; Wuertz, Sven. "Can juvenile Baltic sturgeon ( Acipenser oxyrinchus ) smell the enemy?". Journal of Applied Ichthyology (2019): https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13934. 10.1111/jai.13934 Cámara-Ruiz, Maria; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Gessner, Joern; Wuertz, Sven. "How to improve foraging efficiency for restocking measures of juvenile Baltic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus)". Aquaculture 502 (2019): 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.12.021. 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2018.12.021 Shivaramu, Sahana; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Kašpar, Vojtech; Bierbach, David; Gessner, Jörn; Rodina, Marek; Gela, David; Flajšhans, Martin; Wuertz, Sven. "Critical swimming speed of sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus): Does intraspecific hybridization affect swimming performance?". Journal of Applied Ichthyology 35 1 (2018): 217-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13834. 10.1111/jai.13834 Samaras, Athanasios; Espírito-Santo, Carlos; Papandroulakis, Nikos; Mitrizakis, Nikolaos; Pavlidis, Michail; Höglund, Erik; Pelgrim, Thamar N. M.; et al. "Allostatic Load and Stress Physiology in European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) and Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata L.)". Frontiers in Endocrinology 9 (2018): https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00451. 10.3389/fendo.2018.00451

Preprint

Navarro, Luiz Claudio; Roberto, Lucas Nogueira; Souvignet, Clément; Cavalheri, Thaís Franco; Espirito-Santo, Carlos; Matos, Aníbal; Rocha, Anderson; Ozório, Rodrigo. "High-Accuracy, Non-Invasive Fish Biometrics via Above-Water Stereo Vision for Precision Fish Farming". 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6050496. 10.2139/ssrn.6050496 Maria Cámara-Ruiz; Carlos Espirito Santo; Jörn Gessner; Sven Wuertz. "Environmental enrichment on neural plasticity in juvenile Baltic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus)". 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/491910. 10.1101/491910