Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Ricardo Santos
Citation names
- Santos, Ricardo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 041F-9BB4-613E
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1944-4261
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 962639953 (Personal)
- Telephone
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- 218417110 (Professional)
Addresses
- Instituto Superior Tecnico - Laboratorio Analises, Av Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Virology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Spanish; Castilian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2008/10/01 - 2016/12/08
Concluded
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Life Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Microbiology
Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom
"Diversity, stress responses and ecological behaviour of Mycobacterium species " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1990/10/01 - 1993/06/01
Concluded
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Biotecnologia (Bacharelato)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/08/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2012 - 2015 | Giardia and Cryptosporidium in surface and treated water of Denali National Park
Discovery Denali 2012
Principal investigator
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National Park Service
Concluded
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1997/01/01 - 1999/01/01 | Manipulação genética e ambiental de vias biossintéticas de exopolissacáridos bacterianos
Praxis XXI 2/2.1/Bio/1125/95
Research Technician Fellow
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1995/01/01 - 1997/01/01 | Acção de ácidos fracos conservantes alimentares na levedura Saccharomyces cerevisiae: aquisição de tolerância e mecanismos
subjacentes
JNICT PBIC/C/Bio/2031/95
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
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Concluded
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1994/01/01 - 1995/01/01 | Microrganismos em ambientes extremos: mecanismos de adaptação
Praxis XXI 2/2.1/Bio/20/94
Scientific Initiation Fellow
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Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2020/10/01 - 2031/10/01 | CAPTURA – Use of functionalized particules for an efficient enrichment and detection of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical and environmental
samples
02/SAICT/2020 - SAICT
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/10/01 - 2024/10/01 | SARA - Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances in Aquatic Ecosystems
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2020/12/05 - 2021/11/04 | SARS-Control: Avaliação dos impactos de SARS-CoV-2 no ciclo urbano da água e dos efeitos a jusante em Saúde Pública
70076
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização
Ongoing
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2020/04/20 - 2021/08/19 | COVIDETECT: Deteção, quantificação e modelação de SARS-CoV-2 em águas residuais como ferramenta de alerta precoce para a disseminação
do vírus na comunidade
48467
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2013/03 - 2018/02 | AQUAVALENS - Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and
water used in food preparation
FP7 KBBE-CALL 6-311849
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N/A |
2013 - 2014 | POLYCER - Efeitos da actividade microbiana no desempenho de pastas cerâmicas na prensagem unidireccional
EXPL/CTM-CER/0637/2012
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N/A |
2007/10/01 - 2010/12/31 | SpinAquaChip: uma nova plataforma para detecção de patogéneos em amostras de água
PTDC/AMB/73154/2006
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
INESC Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2005/09/01 - 2008/09/01 | Detecção e Identificação de Enterovirus em águas balneares da costa do Estoril: Origem desta contaminação e sua correlação
com virus da comunidade. Avaliação de novos bioindicadores para este tipo de águas
FCG 77867
Principal investigator
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2005/01/01 - Current | Occurence of Mycobacteria in Extreme Environments
OMB#1024-023
OMB # (1024-0236)
Principal investigator
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Fundação Luso-Americana
Ongoing
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2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28 | Understanding the Role of Biofilm Architecture in Legionella Colonization and Risk of Detachment in hospital networks using
an Integrated Monitoring Approach
2022.03523.PTDC
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Conference abstract |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/09 | Connecting Virology Towards A One-Health Approach | X International Conference Bioresources And Viruses
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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2023/08 | Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances in Aquatic Ecosystems, JPI-SARA | 20th Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology
(Sweden)
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2023/06 | Bacteriophages as vehicles for the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes | Watermicro23, 21st symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology
(Darwin, Australia)
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2022/11 | Bactericide Effect of Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Ion-Exchanged Zeolites on Composite Cellulose Acetate Nanofiltration Membranes | Euromembranes 2022
(Naples, Italy)
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2022/09 | Understanding and exploiting the impacts of low pH on microorganisms: a COST Action | 11th Central European Congress on Food and Nutrition
(Ljublijana, Slovenia)
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2022/09 | Microbiology contamination in grass irrigated with different water sources | IWA World Congress and Exhibition
IWA (Copenhagen, Denmark)
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2022/05 | Enteric viruses in beach sand: risks to public health | 7th Food and Environmental Virology Conference
ISFEV (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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2022/04 | Reuse of municipal reclaimed water and treated greywater: implications for crop irrigation and human health | Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022
(Singapura, Singapore)
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2022/04 | Resistance of Mycobacterium in water treatment processes | Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022
(Singapura, Singapore)
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2022/04 | A wastewater-based epidemiology tool for COVID-19 surveillance in Portugal | Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022
(Singapura, Singapore)
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2021/10 | Modelling COVID-19 positivity rate as function of wastewater viral load | xxv congresso da sociedade portuguesa de estatística—SPE 2021
(Évora, Portugal)
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2021/10 | Qualidade microbiológica de relvados irrigados com diferentes origens de água / Microbiological quality of grass irrigated with different water sources | 19º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (ENaSB) and 12ª Jornadas Técnicas Internacionais de Resíduos (JTIR)
(Viseu, Portugal)
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2021/09 | Nanocomposite membranes of cellulose acetate/silver nanoparticles and cellulose acetate/silver ion exchanged zeolites for biofouling control | 13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 6th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology
(Viena, Austria)
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2020/11 | Synthesis and Characterization of Bactericide Activity of Cellulose Acetate Asymmetric NF Composite Membranes with Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Ion Exchanged Zeolite | AIChE Annual Meeting |
2020/07 | COVIDetect - Detection, Quantification and modeling of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Portugal - a tool for an early-warning for the dissemination of the virus in the community | 2nd Town Hall: SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance employing Sewers - EU Umbrella Study at UN World Water Quality Alilance
European Commission
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2019/09 | Limits of survival of Mycobacterium species in Water distribution systems | 20th Health Related Water Microbiology
IWA (Viena, Austria)
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2019/09 | A microfluidic platform for rapid detection of antibiotic resistant bacteria at the “point-of-need | Meeting Point Functional Layers 1st Symposium
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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2018/10 | New Perspectives in Water Microbiology | Special Seminar - Environmental Engineering
Stanford University (United States)
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2018/10 | Health risks associated with playgrounds: decay of human enteroviruses in natural sand and fine gravel | 6th International Food and Environmental Virology Conference
ISFEV / ASU (Tempe, Arizona, United States)
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2017/11 | The Predicted Concentrations of Antibiotics in STPs in Portugal – A Tool for the Microbial Community Resistance Research | 18th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry
(Porto, Portugal)
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2017/05 | Microbiological Quality in Small Water Supplies: Are the Traditional Indicators Enough? | 19th Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium
(Chapel Hill, United States)
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