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

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Researcher Id

LKN-0461-2024

Scopus Author Id

58486206600

Email addresses

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

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

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	Biotecnologia Marinha e Aquacultura (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	Genética Molecular (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	17
2009/09 - 2012/09 Concluded	Bioquímica (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal	13

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/10 - Current	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

Publications

Journal article

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

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