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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Eva Silva Lopes

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D012-CAD3-9F2D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6928-5524
Education
Degree Classification
2023/02/01 - 2027
Ongoing
Ciência, Tecnologia e Gestão do Mar (Doutoramento)
Major in Observação do Oceano e Alterações Globais
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway
"Exploring microplankton interactions and their functional roles in the changing Arctic Ocean" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018/09/24 - 2020/10/15
Concluded
Ciências do Mar - Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado)
Major in Biologia e Ecologia Marinhas
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal
"Prokaryotic Dynamics Across the North Pacific Subtropical Front" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2014 - 2018/07/26
Concluded
Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/06/15 - 2023 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/01 - 2022/09 Visit Guide Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2018/01/08 - 2018/06/30 Internship Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Croatia
2014/06 - 2014/07 Research Trainee Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/03/12 - Current O Microbioma do Azoto num Ártico em Mudança Nitrogen Microbiome in the Changing Arctic
2022.02983.PTDC
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/04/01 - Current PERMAMERC - Mercury Biogeochemistry, Fate and Impact in Permafrost Thaw Ecosystems
PTDC/CTA-AMB/4744/2020
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/02 - 2027/01 Exploring microplankton interactions and their functional roles in a changing Arctic Ocean
88696DFA
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2025/03/01 - 2026/02/01 Life on the Edge: Unraveling Arctic Microbial Transformations from Winter to Summer
RiS ID 12634
Principal investigator
Norges forskningsråd
Concluded
2024/11/01 - 2025/03/19 ArcticEdge - Decipher Climate Change Impacts on the Plankton Microbiome at the Transition from the Pacific and Arctic Oceans
-
Researcher
Ongoing
2022/01/03 - 2022/04/30 FEEDMI: Melhorias na Resistência a Doenças, Stress e Sustentabilidade Ambiental em Sistemas de Aquacultura através de Ferramentas Nutricionais e de Modulação das Comunidades Microbianas
39948
Research Fellow
Concluded
2021/06/07 - 2021/12/29 ATLÂNTIDA – Plataform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER- 000040
Research Fellow
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research
UIDB/04423/2020
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental
UIDP/04423/2020
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2025/05/04 - Current Optimization of eDNA approaches for deep-sea microbiome and invertebrates biodiversity
101160298
Researcher
2025/04/02 - Current UnderPressure: Metal impacts on deep-sea microbial diversity and nitrogen cycling potential
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00906200
Researcher
2025/03/04 - Current Integrating Biogeochemical and Genomic Data to Forecast N-Cycle Changes in the Arctic Ocean
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00906200
Researcher
2021/06/06 - Current European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network (EMO BON)
Researcher
2021/05/07 - Current eDNAuto - Aquatic in situ Platform for Environmental Nucleic Acid Species Monitoring
Research Fellow
2021/03/21 - Current Conectar os Oceanos Atlântico e Ártico para Decifrar o Impacto das Alterações Climática nas Funções dos Microbiomas Planctónicos.
PTDC/CTA-AMB/4946/2020
Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Lopes, Eva. "A Research Agenda for the Next Generation of Arctic Scientists". Paper presented in Synoptic Arctic Survey-Arctic Science Summit Week 2026, Aarhus, 2026.
  2. Vuckovic, Ksenija; Lopes, Eva; Sharath Chandra Thota; Catarina Maria Pinto Mora Pinto de Magalhães; Durán-Alarcón, Claudio; Pizarro, Leonor; Maria de Fátima Magalhães Carvalho ; Gorodetskaya, Irina V. "Bacterial Bioaerosols Involved in Ice Nucleation and Cloud Formation: Connections to Shifting Precipitation Patterns in the Antarctic Peninsula". Paper presented in EGU25 General Assembly, Vienna, 2025.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-1061
  3. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina; Semedo, Miguel. "From Ice to Atlantic: Prokaryotic Transitions in a Changing Arctic Fjord". Paper presented in XVII Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, 2025.
  4. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina; Semedo, Miguel. "Microbial community shifts associated with warming in Kongsfjorden". Paper presented in Arctic Science Summit Week 2025, 2025.
  5. Vuckovic, Ksenija; Lopes, Eva; Pizarro, Leonor; Catarina Maria Pinto Mora Pinto de Magalhães; Maria de Fátima Magalhães Carvalho ; Semedo, Miguel; Gorodetskaya, Irina V. "Exploring precipitation over the northern Antarctic Peninsula - a microbiological perspective". Paper presented in EGU24 General Assembly, Vienna, 2024.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18750
  6. Lopes, Eva. "Enabling ECS and/or indigenous participation in internationally cross-platformed research cruises". Paper presented in Arctic Science Summit Week 2024, 2024.
  7. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina; Semedo, Miguel. "Microbial community shifts associated with warming in Kongsfjorden". Paper presented in 16th Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, 2024.
  8. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina; Semedo, Miguel. "The distribution of the marine bacteria in the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic influence on its distribution". Paper presented in Pacific Arctic Group Fall Meeting 2023, 2023.
  9. Lopes, Eva. "A Portuguese PhD Student and the Arctic Ocean". Paper presented in 1st International Workshop on Arctic Ocean Observation: Future Collaboration by Research Vessels and Icebreakers, 2023.
  10. Guímaro, Hugo R.; Lopes, Eva; Abreu, José P.; Fragão, Joana; Fernandes, Ana F.; Viceto, Carolina; Gonçalves, Cátia L.; et al. Corresponding author: Abreu, José P.. "APECS Portugal and COVID-19: The action of ECRs during the pandemic". Paper presented in XIV Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares, Faro, 2022.
    Published
  11. "The influence of estuarine tides in the planktonic microbiome diversity". Paper presented in 15th Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto, 2022.
    Accepted
  12. "Unveiling the planktonic nitrifying communities of the remote North Pacific through metabarcoding and metagenomics". 2022.
    Submitted
Conference poster
  1. Lopes, Eva; Semedo, Miguel; Assmy, Philipp; Magalhães, Catarina. "Atlantification and microbial reorganization in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard". Paper presented in Arctic Science Summit Week 2026, 2026.
  2. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina. "From Surface to Depth: Prokaryotic Communities Shifts in the Pacific Arctic Ocean". Paper presented in XVII Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, 2025.
  3. Lopes, Eva; Semedo, Miguel; Magalhães, Catarina. "Shifts in Microbial Communities and Ecological Networks in a Warming Arctic Fjord". Paper presented in Svalbard Science Conference 2025, 2025.
  4. Lopes, Eva. "The Big Small Changes in a Glaciated Fjord". Paper presented in Arctic Frontiers 2024 Actions & Reactions, 2024.
  5. Vuckovic, Ksenija; Lopes, Eva. Corresponding author: Vuckovic, Ksenija. "Microbial insights into precipitation composition on the warming Antarctic Peninsula". Paper presented in XV Portuguese Conference of Polar Sciences, 2023.
  6. Lopes, Eva. "LIFE ON R/V MIRAI: A PORTUGUESE PHD STUDENT ON A JAPANESE VESSEL". Paper presented in XV Portuguese Conference of Polar Sciences, 2023.
  7. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina; Semedo, Miguel. "A JOURNEY TO Ny-Ålesund: A PERSPECTIVE OF A YOUNG RESEARCHER". Paper presented in 14th Portuguese Conference on Polar Sciences, 2022.
  8. "Depth Distribution of Prokaryotic Communities in the North Pacific Subtropical Front". Paper presented in Fems Conference on Microbiology 2020, 2020.
  9. "Prokaryotic Dynamics across the North Pacific Subtropical Front". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference, 2020.
  10. "Prokaryotic Dynamics across the North Pacific Subtropical Front". Paper presented in 13TH MEETING OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS OF UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Eva Lopes; Miguel Semedo; Allison Bailey; Philipp Assmy; Catarina Magalhães. "Differences in Prokaryotic Community Composition Between Two Climatically Contrasting Years in an Arctic Fjord Ecosystem". Environmental Microbiology Reports (2026): https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70282.
    10.1111/1758-2229.70282
  2. Lopes, Eva. "Next release of the European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network (EMO BON) shotgun metagenomic data from water and sediment samples (Release 2)". Biodiversity Data Journal (2026):
  3. Christina Pavloudi; Ioulia Santi; Iñigo Azua; Zuriñe Baña; Mauro Bastianini; Caroline Belser; Jone Bilbao; et al. "First release of the European marine omics biodiversity observation network (EMO BON) shotgun metagenomics data from water and sediment samples". (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e146366.
    10.3897/arphapreprints.e146366
  4. Lopes, Eva; Semedo, Miguel; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Mendes, Renato; de Sousa, João Borges; Magalhães, Catarina. "Horizontal distribution of marine microbial communities in the North Pacific Subtropical Front". Frontiers in Microbiology 15 (2024): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1455196.
    10.3389/fmicb.2024.1455196
  5. Luís Afonso; Joana Costa; Ana Mafalda Correia; Raul Valente; Eva Lopes; Maria Paola Tomasino; Ágatha Gil; et al. "Environmental DNA as a complementary tool for biodiversity monitoring: A multi-technique and multi-trophic approach to investigate cetacean distribution and feeding ecology". PLOS ONE (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300992.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0300992
  6. Semedo, Miguel; Lopes, Eva; Baptista, Mafalda S.; Oller-Ruiz, Ainhoa; Gilabert, Javier; Tomasino, Maria Paola; Magalhães, Catarina. "Depth Profile of Nitrifying Archaeal and Bacterial Communities in the Remote Oligotrophic Waters of the North Pacific". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.624071.
    10.3389/fmicb.2021.624071
Magazine article
  1. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina. "Year-round monitoring of the marine ecosystem in Kongsfjorden", Fram Forum, 2026, https://framforum.com/2026/03/12/year-round-monitoring-of-the-marine-ecosystem-in-kongsfjorden/.
Report
  1. Mienis, Furu; Ventura-Costa, Carolina; Queirós, José P.; Costa, Joana; Lopes, Eva; Kutti, Tina; Xavier, Joana R.. 2025. Scientific Expedition Report. Deliverable D6.1. of the TwinDEEPS project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe.
  2. Mienis, Furu; Xavier, Joana R.; Ventura-Costa, Carolina; Queirós, José P.; Lopes, Eva; Costa, Joana; Nélson Alves. 2025. TwinDEEPS Scientific Expedition Report.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Lopes, Eva. "Prokaryotic Dynamics across the North Pacific Subtropical Front". Master, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, 2020.

Artistic / Performance

Video recording
  1. Ventura-Costa, Carolina; Lopes, Eva; Queirós, José P.; CIIMAR (Director). 2025. CIIMAR Odysseys - Life aboard a RV.
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNQPXyozJN/

Other

Dataset
  1. Lopes, Eva; Magalhães, Catarina. Kongsfjorden long-term seasonal pelagic monitoring program. European Nucleotid Archive. 2025.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/10/26 Decipher Climate Change Impact on Microbiome Diversity Kongsfjorden Flagship Meeting
Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway)
2024/06/05 A Portuguese PhD Student in the Arctic Ocean Sustainable Ocean Alliance - Porto
(Portugal)
2023/10 Decipher Climate Change Impact on Plankton Microbiome DIVERSITY AND Functions Kongsfjorden Flagship Meeting
Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/04 - 2024/09/04 The Blue Think Conference (BTC) is an annual meeting organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) PhD Students’ Committee. Our aim is to gather all students affiliated with our institute in a casual and relaxed environment to share the outputs of our works. Everyone is welcome to attend, hear and discuss the work developed by CIIMAR students. The presentations will include the different scientific fields within CIIMAR laboratories. Each session will count with the presence of renowned scientists who will (2024/09/04 - 2024/09/04)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2021 - 2021 The XIII Portuguese Polar Sciences Conference is an event where Portuguese scientists and their international partners that work in the polar regions discuss ideas, share results, and foster partnerships, promoted by the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR), with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). (2021/11/29 - 2021/11/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/03/13 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Secundária dos Carvalhos Polar Week
2024/11/07 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Artística Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga Polar Week
2024/06/05 - Current A Portuguese PhD Student in the Arctic Ocean
Seminar
Sustainable Ocean Alliance - Porto
2024/04/22 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Básica Arga e Lima Polar Week
2024/04/08 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Artística Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga Polar Week
2023/03/31 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Básica de Santo Tirso
Other
Polar Week
2023/03/29 - Current Education and Outreach Event: talk at Escola Artística Calouste Gulbenkian de Braga
Other
Polar Week
2025/06 - 2025/06 Metagenomics in Action – From Library Prep to NGS Analysis
Workshop
Metagenomics in Action – From Library Prep to NGS Analysis
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/17 Aquatic Species Distribution Modelling training workshop introduces the trainee to aspects of marine and freshwater biogeography, ecology and the theoretical and technical aspects pertinent to ecological niche modelling in aquatic environments. The course will cover the basics of statistical modelling, and the steps to undertake ecological niche modelling, from data compilation to model evaluation and interpretation.
Workshop
Spatial distribution modelling for aquatic organisms
Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2021/07/05 - 2021/07/09 This course is directed at those that are starting their science careers as well as for those that wish to improve their communication skills, offering valuable tips to answer the most frequent challenges in this field. We will focus on manuscript/thesis writing, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, talking with journalists, avoiding fake news, pseudoscience, and much more.
Other
Scientific Writing and Communication
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/10/28 - 2020/10/31 The FEMS Online Conference on Microbiology is a small to medium-sized, happening in alternate years to the Congress of European Microbiologists and organized in close collaboration with a local microbiology society. Here, intercontinental, European, regional, and local scientists, from all stages in their career and from all demographical backgrounds, can participate in a high-profile conference.
Conference
FEMS Online Conference on Microbiology
Federation Of European Microbiological Societies, United Kingdom
2020/02/03 - 2020/02/07 This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and aims to extend the knowledge on pre-processing of metabarcoding data and the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data. Metabarcoding and Metagenomic Data Processing and Analysis
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Italy
2019/09/09 - 2019/09/20 The goal of the summer school is to provide an in depth overview in terms of “Ocean Literacy”, covering both maritime and marine modules. The Blue Growth Summer School aims to provide an extensive training course combining theoretical sessions on a wide variety of topics, several on-site visits to amongst others the wind farms and Flanders Maritime Institute. Furthermore, workshops will be organised on the application of AV-RV technologies in Blue Growth industries and communicating with impact.
Workshop
Blue Growth Summer School
Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - 2024 Ciimar PhD Students Committee Executive Committee
2022 - 2024 Association of Polar Early Career Scientists - National Committee of Portugal Executive Committee

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/07 - 2024/07 Mentoria na 1st UPorto Research Summer School in Microbial Communities: Taste of PhD Experience (UPhDExperience 2024 (Outros) Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2026/02/27 - 2026/02/27 Consultório Ambiental Investigação microbiologia marinha no Ártico

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2025 - 2026 Laboratary tutor of the thesis "Marine prokaryotic community structure in the Pacific Arctic Region: A horizontal and vertical analysis" Ana Rita Domingues
2024 - 2025 Laboratary tutor of the thesis "Microbial tracers involved in Antarctica cloud condensation and ice nuclei" Ksenija Vuckovic
2021/09/09 - 2022/07/05 Laboratary tutor of the thesis "Exploring planktonic microbiome diversity in the coastal ecosystems of the North of Portugal" Simão Horta
2020/09/04 - 2021/09/05 Laboratary tutor of the thesis "Prediction of Future Trends of Microbial Communinities Structure under Climate Change Conditions" Arianna Capparotto

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/09/25 - 2025/10/15 Participação na campanha na estação cientifica de Ny-Alesund (Svalbard, Noruega) através do Arctic Field Grant Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway
2025/06/03 - 2025/06/15 Pariticipação na campanha no Oceano Atlântico a bordo do navio de investigação Pelagia (Nioz, Holanda) Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee, Netherlands
2024/08/27 - 2024/09/30 Pariticipação na campanha no Oceano Ártico a bordo do navio de investigação Mirai (JAMSTEC, Japão)
2023/08/23 - 2023/10/04 Pariticipação na campanha no Oceano Ártico a bordo do navio de investigação Mirai (JAMSTEC, Japão)
2023/06/29 - 2023/07/13 Participação na campanha de monitorização pelágica na estação cientifica em Ny-Alesund (Svalbard, Noruega) Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway
2022/06/19 - 2022/07/01 Participação na campanha de monitorização pelágica na estação Cientifica de Ny-Alesund (Svalbard, Noruega) Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norway
Distinctions

Award

2026 Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop
2019 The Out-of-the-box Creative Price (Blue Growth Summer School)
Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Other distinction

2023 Enabling Early Career Scientist and/or Indigenous Participation in Internationally Cross-Platformed Research Cruises
IASC‘s 2023 Cross-Cutting / Working Group funding call, Iceland