|| PhD DEGREE: Viviana Martins (VM) completed her PhD in Agricultural Sciences - Plant Biology, at age 25, in 2014, funded
by a FCT mixed PhD grant (SFRH/BD/64587/2009), under the supervision of Hernâni Gerós (University of Minho, Portugal), Eduardo
Blumwald (University of California Davis, USA) and Mohsen Hanana (CBBC, Tunisia). Her PhD thesis was awarded best PhD Dissertation
in Viticulture and Oenology by Sogrape Vinhos, the largest wine company in Portugal, and exposed the effects of copper-based
fungicides in grape berry and wine quality.
|| POST-DOCTORAL PATH: VM initiated her post-doc in 2014, in the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences
(i3S - former IBMC) from University of Porto, as grantee of two research projects funded by FCT/FEDER (PTDC/BIA-BCM/119718/2010;
PTDC/BBB-BIO/2231/2012). She then was awarded a FCT post-doctoral grant (SFRH/BPD/107905/2015) from 2015 to 2018. In 2019,
she was hired as Post-doctoral Junior Researcher in the Centre for Molecular and Environmental Biology, in University of Minho,
until 2025.
|| RESEARCH LINES: VM research lines are centered on the areas of Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Molecular Biotechnology:
from Microbes to Plants. She focuses on three main research topics: 1) optimization of vineyard mineral supplements for improving
grape berry and wine quality (2015 to present); 2) exploitation and preservation of the microbial terroir towards the production
of wines with high typicity (2021 to present); 3) optimization of the use of native grape berry microbial strains as biocontrol
agents for sustainable agriculture (2022 to present).
|| INTERNATIONALIZATION: VM established active collaborations with national and international experts, including Arnaud Lanoue
(Plant Metabolomics, University of Tours, France), Ricardo López (Wine Aroma, University of Zaragoza, Spain), Anna Szakiel
(Grape Waxes; University of Warsaw, Poland) and Gianfranco Diretto (Plant Isoprenoids; ENEA, Italy), with whom she shares
several joint publications in Q1 journals including Food Chemistry and Food Research International, and an ongoing R&D project.
VM strengthened her internationalization activities through a COST Short-term Scientific Mission in the University of Tours
(2019) and Erasmus+ Mobility programs in the University of Zaragoza (2023) and University of Warsaw (2024), besides having
integrated the COST Action 17111 Integrape. She also attended international Training Schools «METABO-OPEN 2» & «METHADA 2020»
organized by this COST Action.
|| RESEARCH PROJECTS & INDUSTRY: VM leads the project CalciumGrape (https://doi.org/10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1377/CT0027) and
is co-PI of the project GrapeMicrobiota (PTDC/BAA-AGR/2691/2020), which is inserted in the goals of the ongoing ADVID-CoLAB
Vines&Wines, actively collaborating with the wine company Sogevinus. She also integrates the team of the ongoing EU HORIZON-RIA
project VINNY: Advanced nano encapsulation of bio-based pesticides and fertilisers for a circular and sustainable viticulture.
VM was also team member of 3 other R&D projects: BerryPlastid PTDC-BIA-FBT/28165/2017, MitiVineDrought PTDC/BIA-FBT/30341/2017,
and AgriFoodXXI NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000041).
|| MAIN OUTPUTS: VM main outputs include 27 journal articles published in the past 5 years, in indexed journals including
Food Microbiology, chapters in viticulture and berry biochemistry books, and communications in national/international conferences,
with several awards. She supervised Master's and PhD thesis focused in berry biochemistry and microbiology, and exerts teaching
activities in University of Minho (2017 to present), besides refereeing in journals of the areas of Plant and Food Sciences
(2014 to present), and participating/organizing outreach activities to the general public. She is a Guest Editor in Frontiers
in Microbiology - section Microbe and Virus Interactions with Plants.
