Curriculum Vitae
Pedro Rodrigues Frade
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Rodrigues Frade
Citation names
- Frade, Pedro R.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- B81F-83F1-BB9B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4010-255X
Email addresses
- prfrade@ualg.pt (Professional)
- pedro.frade@nhm-wien.ac.at (Professional)
Addresses
- Natural History Museum Vienna; Burgring 7, 1010, Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.pfrade.com/ (Professional)
- https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en/pedro_frade (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| German | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Dutch | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2009
Concluded
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PhD (Doutoramento)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Corals through the light – Phylogenetics, functional diversity and adaptive strategies of coral-symbiont associations over
a large depth range" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
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2002/10/15
Concluded
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Biologia Aplicada aos Recursos Animais (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Coral population structures in marginal environments: the inland bays of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/01 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
| Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/07/01 - Current | Curator of Invertebrate Zoology | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria |
| Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/02/01 - 2020/06/30 | Postdoctoral Researcher | Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
| 2011/06/01 - 2015/12/31 | Postdoctoral researcher | Universität Wien Department für Limnologie und Ozeanographie, Austria |
| 2010/06/01 - 2010/11/01 | Postdoctoral researcher | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Mexico |
| 2004/05/01 - 2009/06/01 | PhD student | Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee, Netherlands |
| 2003/08/01 - 2004/03/01 | Bolsa de Iniciação à Investigação Científica | Universidade dos Açores Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/02/01 - Current | Coral’s Gastric Cavity: a bioreactor for microbe-driven metabolic pathways
SFRH/BPD/110285/2015
Principal investigator
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2014/08/01 - 2015/12/31 | COSMIC - Coral Surface Microlayer: production and dynamics of mucus-associated microbial communities
299320
Principal investigator
Universität Wien Department für Limnologie und Ozeanographie, Austria
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European Research Council
Concluded
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| 2011/06/01 - 2013/07/31 | COral Surface MICrolayer: production and dynamics of mucus-associated microbial communities
M1363-B20
Principal investigator
Universität Wien Department für Limnologie und Ozeanographie, Austria
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Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
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| 2004/06 - 2008/06 | PhD Fellowship
SFRH/BD/13382/2003
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Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/06/01 - Current | Marine invertebrates and their associated microbial communities
unknown
Invited Scientist Fellow
James Cook University, Australia
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Beijing Genome Institute-Shenzhen
Ongoing
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| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Reviewing microbial communities on the GBR: contribution to a functioning reef
unknown
Invited Scientist Fellow
James Cook University, Australia
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National Environmental Science Programme
Concluded
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016/02/01 - 2020/02/01 | Marine Microbes
unknown
Invited Scientist Fellow
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia
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Ongoing
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| 2012/09 - 2016/05 | Catlin Seaview Survey and XL Catlin Seaview Survey
unknown
Invited Scientist Fellow
University of Queensland, Australia
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Online resource |
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Artistic / Performance
| Video recording |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/03/04 | Codiversification and biodiversity loss in reef-building corals | 22nd Meeting of the Society for Biological Systematics
University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2019/08/02 | Exploring the distribution and diagnostic power of microbiomes across the Great Barrier Reef towards the implementation of microbial observatories | 15th European Ecological Federation Congress
University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/06/19 | The role of coral-associated microbial communities on host distribution and adaptation across mesophotic depths | Gordon Research Conference on Mesophotic Coral Reefs
Gordon Research Conference (Maine, United States)
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| 2017/11/21 | A microbial perspective on the coral holobiont: host compartments, microbial successions and adaptations to the mesophotic environment | ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University (Townsville, Australia)
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| 2017/02/13 | Microbial successions within distinct compartments of the coral holobiont and their relation to coral health | 1st Australian Microbial Ecology Conference (AusME)
Australian Society for Microbiology (Melbourne, Australia)
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| 2015/12/02 | Keystone host-microbe interactions within the coral holobiont and their ecological significance | Mini-Symposium “Coral Reef Functioning”
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (Netherlands)
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| 2015/05/22 | Coral dimethylsulfoniopropionate: responses to light and stress, and interrelations with bacterial assemblages in surface mucus | 37th Scientific Meeting of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC)
CARMABI Foundation (Curaçao)
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| 2014/05/13 | Linking the composition of coral surface mucus to the structure and function of its associated microbial biofilm community | Biofilms6
University of Vienna (Austria)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/01 - Current | Insights from the past: How has the diversity and community composition of coral symbionts changed since the late 19th century?
Co-supervisor
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Universität Wien, Austria
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| 2020/10 - Current | Investigating green sea turtle diets and digestive microbiomes using DNA metabarcoding
Supervisor
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Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2019/06 - Current | Microbiomes in the trophic ecology of marine herbivores (focus on green turtles)
Supervisor
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Marine Biology (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
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| 2017/06 - Current | Co-evolution between marine invertebrates and their microbiomes
Co-supervisor
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James Cook University, Australia
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| 2016/06 - Current | Manipulating the coral microbiome to increase thermal tolerance of reef corals
Co-supervisor
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| 2019/11 - 2020/10 | Taxonomic and functional microbial dynamics of Sargassum surface biofilms and their response to the coral reef environment
Supervisor
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Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
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| 2018/10 - 2019/06 | Coupling shifts in the composition of coral tissue- and mucus-associated microbial communities to changes in coral host physiology
and environmental fluctuations
Supervisor
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Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
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| 2004 - 2019 | Supervisor of 20 MSc students, both in the lab and in the field, including thesis guidance and final grading (University of
Amsterdam, University of Lisboa, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, University of South Denmark, University of
Algarve).
Supervisor
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| 2013/01 - 2017/12 | Ecology of mesophotic coral reefs
Co-supervisor
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University of Queensland, Australia
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| 2014 - 2015 | The core microbiome of coral surface mucus plays a key role in mediating holobiont health and survival upon disturbance
Supervisor
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Universität Wien Department für Limnologie und Ozeanographie, Austria
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| 2013 - 2014 | Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and DMSP-degrading bacteria in corals
Supervisor
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Universität Innsbruck Fakultät für Biologie, Austria
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| 2006 - 2007 | Do morphospecies in the genus Madracis correspond to genetically distinct units?
Supervisor
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Universiteit van Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Netherlands
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| 2006 - 2007 | Genetic variation of Symbiodinium in the Caribbean coral genus Madracis
Supervisor
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2004 - 2005 | Photo-acclimation and adaptation of a depth generalist Symbiodinium type in the coral genus Madracis
Supervisor
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Universiteit van Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Netherlands
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands |
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - 2018 | Member of the science team running the citizen-science project “Earthwatch”, which involves the general public on field activities
of scientists monitoring the effects of cyclones on coral reefs (2014)
Workshop
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James Cook University College of Science and Engineering, Australia |
| 2015/10/28 - 2015/10/29 | AutReef2015, a workshop on reef research made in Austria (2015/10/28 - 2015/10/29)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Vienna Natural History Museum (NHM), Austria |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2019/09 - Current | Invited speaker at the ProjectAR event, organized by the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, as coral expert commenting
on the documentary “Chasing Coral” (events.ar.fchampalimaud.org/chasingcoral/)
Round table
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ProjectAR
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/05/18 - 2015/05/22 | 37th Scientific Meeting of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC) | CARMABI Foundation |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 - Current | Coral Reef Ecology | Marine Biology MSc (Mestrado) | Universidade do Algarve, Portugal |
| 2018/05 - 2018/05 | Impacts of climate change on reefs: temperature and acidification | Life History and Evolution of Reef Corals (Bachelor) | James Cook University College of Science and Engineering, Australia |
| 2011 - 2012 | Coral Reef Ecosystems | MSc in Biological Science (Master) | Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/08 | Interview with reporter Joana Moreira, Beauty Editor of “Vogue Portugal”, for an article about “Coral bleaching and the effect of sunscreens on corals and coral reefs”, published in the September 2019 edition of the magazine | Vogue Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2015 | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2015 | Hans and Lotte Hass Marine Conservation Prize (“Hans und Lotte Hass Meeresschutzpreis”)
Haus des Meeres - Aqua Terra Zoo, Austria
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| 2014 | University of Queensland Travel Award for International Collaborative Research
University of Queensland, Australia
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| 2013 | EU Marie Curie IntraEuropean Fellowship
European Research Council, Belgium
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| 2013 | Infrastructure Access Fellowship
ASSEMBLE Plus - Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories, France
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| 2011 | Lise-Meitner postdoctoral fellowship
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria
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| 2004 | PhD fellowship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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