Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Tânia Minhós
Citation names
- Minhós, Tânia
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2B1D-B4F5-0DB9
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0183-1343
Websites
- https://fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/taniarodrigues/ (Scholar)
- http://cria.org.pt/wp/tania-minhos/ (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tania_Minhos (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
French | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
Portuguese (Mother tongue) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2012
Concluded
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Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy)
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
"Sociogenetics and population structure of two african colobine monkeys in Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Concluded with minor corrections |
2004
Concluded
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Biology Applied to Terrestrial Resources (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Impacto da acção de monitores no comportamento social de um grupo de babuínos chacma, Papio cynocephalus ursinus (Kerr, 1792),
na Península do Cabo, África do Sul”." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/12/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
2015/09/14 - 2020/11/30 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
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Employer | |
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2021/09/01 - Current | Coordenadora Licenciatura em Antropologia | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Others
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Employer | |
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2013/02/01 - 2015/09/13 | Post-doctoral Fellow | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
2010/03/01 - 2012/12/31 | Researcher in "Mitochondrial DNA variation of the lesser spot-nosed guenon (Cercopithecus petaurista) from Canhabaque island, Bijagós Archipelago, West Africa". | Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
2010/02/01 - 2012/12/31 | Researcher on "Molecular identification of primate bushmeat sold in Guinea Bissau". | Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
2006/01/01 - 2007/06/30 | Research fellowship Project POCI/CVT/61590/2004 “What is, in fact, a domestic rabbit?” Project Leader: Prof. Nuno Ferrand | Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal |
2005/04/01 - 2005/07/31 | Research Assistant Esme Beamish’s MSc in “Influence of mutilation in chacma baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in the performance of daily activities, Cape Peninsula, South Africa”. | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
2004/02/15 - 2004/10/31 | Research Assistant Angela Layman’s PhD Thesis “Anthropogenic influences and the socioecology of chacma baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus” | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
2002/08/01 - 2002/08/31 | Research Assistant - Socio-ecological study of the black-monkey, Cercopithecus mitis mitis. | Kissama National Park, Angola |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2016/06/01 - 2019/11/30 | Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of West-African primates: a contribution of the biological anthropology to their
conservation plan
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Principal investigator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2015/04/01 - 2018/03/31 | Protecting the Western Chimpanzee and threatened primates from logging and illegal hunting in Guinea-Bissau
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Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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Born Free Foundation
Concluded
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2015/10/01 - 2016/09/30 | Protecting the western chimpanzee and primates species from illegal logging and bushmeat hunting in Guinea-Bissau
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Researcher
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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Chester Zoo
Concluded
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2010/05/01 - 2011/12/31 | Applied Landscape Genetics to Chimpanzee Conservation In Guinea-Bissau
Ref. GA-0678
Other
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
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US Fish and Wildlife Service Arizona Ecological Services
Concluded
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2005/07/01 - 2007/06/30 | What is, in fact, a domestic rabbit?
POCI/CVT/61590/2004
Research Technician Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/03/01 - Current | Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological
and anthropogenic changes
Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological
and anthropogenic changes
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2022/11/01 - 2023/05/31 | Outside Conservation: explorando o papel do conhecimento ecológico local na persistência a longo prazo dos chimpanzés ocidentais
(Pan troglodytes verus) fora das áreas protegidas na Guiné-Bissau, África Ocidental.,
LEKWILD
Principal investigator
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2021/09/01 - 2022/12/31 | Applying a cross-disciplinary approach to enhance the integration of human livelihoods and the conservation of the elusive
chimpanzees from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone
1690
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Primate Conservation Inc
Concluded
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2019/11/01 - 2020/10/31 | Assessing the conservation status of Western red colobus populations using a non-invasive genomic approach
182519977
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Journal article |
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Online resource |
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Report |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/11/04 | Contribuição de metodologias não-invasivas para a conservação de primatas não humanos: o caso dos macacos cólobos da África Ocidental | II Encontro Aberto de Primatologia |
2022/10/06 | Conservation genetics of the red colobus monkeys from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone | VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
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2021/10/26 | Genomic approaches applied to the conservation of West African primates | Anthropology and Conservation Conference
Royal Anthropology Institute (United Kingdom)
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2019/10/10 | What do we know about West African red colobus? | VII Iberian Primatological Conference
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2019 | Alterações demográficas e comportamentais de primatas da África Ocidental que habitam ambientes antropogénicos. | VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia.
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2018 | Consequences of human-induced forest exploitation on West African Red Colobus . | 27th International Primatological Society Congress
United Nations Conference Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)
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2018 | Demographic history of West African primates inferred from genomic data. | 27th International Primatological Society Congress
United Nations Conference Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)
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2018 | Demographic and behavioral changes of West African primates inhabiting an anthropogenic habitat, | Encontro aberto de Primatologia
Universidade Senior de Almada (Almada, Portugal)
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2017/03/15 | Conservation challenges for the colobus monkeys in Guinea Bissau. | 1st International Meeting History of Nature and Environments: Perspectives and Dialogues
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2017 | How the demographic history assists the conservation of two arboreal primates. | VI Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association (Burgos, Spain)
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2016 | Consequences of Forest Exploitation in two arboreal primates. | Seminários CRIA
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Anthropologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016 | Consequences of Forest Exploitation in two arboreal primates. | EAO Seminar Series
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal)
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2016 | Consequences of Forest Exploitation in two arboreal primates. | Primate Conservation Seminar Series
Oxford Brooks University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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2016 | Demographic bottleneck in two arboreal primates. A consequence of forest exploitation | VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2016 | Genetic Consequences of Human Forest Exploitation for Two Primate Species in Guinea Bissau | 5th Iberian Primatological Conference
Évora University (Évora, Portugal)
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2015 | Porque é que nos revemos nos outros primatas? A antropologia Biológica elucida-nos, , Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, | Jornada de Reflexão - O que é o Homem?
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Conservation Genetics of Guinean Bissau Primates, , Faculty of Sciences, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal. | NEBFCUL Conferences
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Variation under Conservation. Darwin’s Legacy Tea Party. | Darwin’s Legacy Tea Party
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Consequences of forest exploitation on two primates in Guinea Bissau. | Open Lecture
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Consequences of forest exploitation on two primates in Guinea Bissau. | Open Lecture
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Demographic bottleneck in two arboreal primates: a consequence of forest exploitation | Tibe 2015
CIBIO- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, (Vairão, Portugal)
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2014 | Molecular tools applied to primate conservation. | CBA Conferences
Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2013 | Use of non-invasive molecular tools in the study of non-human primates’ social systems. | Encontros Antropológicos na Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2013 | Kinship and intra-group social dynamics in two sympatric African colobus species. | I BioAnthropological Meeting
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2011 | Using genetic techniques to identify species in the bushmeat trade. Monitoring bushmeat imports from Africa to Europe: Refining methods, establishing scale and evaluating threats. |
Zoological Society of London (ZSL) (London, United Kingdom)
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2011 | Are western colobus monkeys cooporating with kin? A comparative socio-genetic study on red and black-and-white colobus from Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau. | IV Congress of the European Federation for Primatology
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia (Almada, Portugal)
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2009 | Effect of the social system on the behavioural patterns of two colobine species in Guinea Bissau | IV Congress of the European Federation for Primatology
(Zurich, Switzerland)
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2009 | Sex-biased dispersal affecting the social relationships in two colobine monkeys in Guinea Bissau. | II Iberian Primatological Conference
Spanish Primatological Association (Madrid, Spain)
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2009 | Estratégias de conservação de dois macácos colobus do Parque Nacional de Cantanhez. | Open lecture
IBAP – Instituto de Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas (Bissau, Guinea-Bissau)
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2005 | The effect of artificial food provisioning in habitat preferences and movement patterns of a chacma baboon troop (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Recommendations to reduce the human-baboon conflict. | II Portuguese Primatological Conference
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2005 | Mutilation as a possible limiting factor in the performance of the daily activities of a troop of chacma baboons, Papio cynocephalus ursinus (Keer 1972) in Da Gama Park, South Africa. | II Portuguese Primatological Conference
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2022/09/01 - 2026/08/31 | Investigating the role of protective cultural beliefs for the long-term conservation of Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes
verus) and their habitats.
Supervisor
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Antropologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2021/09/01 - 2025/08/31 | Applying a mixed-methods approach to identify the anthropogenic and ecological drivers of chimpanzee abundance and distribution
at Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone
Supervisor of Christian Howell
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Antropologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2020/09/01 - 2024/08/31 | Integrating genomics with local knowledge to understand responses of West African primates to past and present ecological
and anthropogenic changes
Supervisor of Filipa Borges
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Antropologia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
2021/11/01 - 2022/09/30 | Inferring selection processes in West African non-human primates using whole genome sequences
Co-supervisor of Francisco Silva
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Biologia da Conservação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2020/09/01 - 2022/06/30 | Spatial genetic structure and demographic history of two African colobine monkeys in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra
Leone
Supervisor of Darya Sevastópolska
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Biologia da Conservação (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2017/04/01 - 2021/03/31 | The use of plants by humans and non-human primates in altered landscapes: diet flexibility or local adaptation?
Co-supervisor of Isa Aleixo-Pais
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Biosciences (PhD)
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
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2018/09/01 - 2019/10/31 | Investigating cocoa foraging by critically endangered chimpanzees at the Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone: Implications
for cocoa management
Co-supervisor of Tanya Payne
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Biological Sciences (Master)
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
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2018/09/01 - 2019/03/31 | Primate socio-ecological adaptations to rural anthropogenic landscapes
Supervisor of Guilherme Marques
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Anthropology (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2018/09/01 - 2019/03/31 | Primate socio-ecological adaptations to urban anthropogenic lands
Supervisor
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Anthropology (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2015/09/01 - 2019/03/01 | Insights into insular primates: conservation genetics of Cercopithecus petaurista buettikoferi, Cercopithecus campbelli and
Chlorocebus sabaeus in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea- Bissau
Co-supervisor of Ivo Colmonero-Costeira
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Ecology (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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2017/10/01 - 2018/02/28 | Erasmus Student Network - Lisbon
Supervisor
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Anthropology (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2015/09/01 - 2017/05/31 | Population structure and demographic history of two African Colobus in Ivory Coast: effect of the habitat fragmentation and
hunting
Supervisor
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Conservation Biology (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30 | Activity budget of Piliocolobus badius temminckii (Temmincki red colobus) in Guinea Bissau
Supervisor of Inês Oliveira
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Anthropology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30 | Activity budget of Colobus polykomos (Western black-and-white colobus) in Guinea Bissau
Supervisor
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Anthropology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2016/01/01 - 2016/06/30 | Diet of Colobus polykomos (Western black-and-white colobus) in Guinea Bissau
Supervisor of Ariana Lavos
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Anthropology (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2010/10/01 - 2011/04/30 | Mitochondrial DNA diversity of two colobus monkeys species in Cantanhez National Park, Guinea Bissau
Supervisor
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Zoology (Degree)
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/10/08 - 2019/10/11 | 7th Iberian Primatological Conference - Empathy, Education and Conservation: Primates in a shared world (2019/10/08 - 2019/10/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal |
2018/06/05 - 2018/06/05 | Workshop in Primate Conservation Genetics, Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone (2018/06/05)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
2017/02/18 - 2017/02/18 | Workshop in Primate Conservation in Anthropogenic Environments: Challenges and Strategies (2017/02/18)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2016/12/10 - 2016/12/15 | Workshop on Chimpanzee Conservation in Guinea Bissau, Cantanhez National Park and Bissau, Guinea Bissau (2016/12/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
2015/11/17 - 2015/11/20 | 5th Iberian Primatological Conference: Extinction is Forever! (2015/11/17 - 2015/11/20)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal |
2008 - 2008 | Workshop for park rangers and touristic guides “The importance of Biodiversity in Cantanhez National Park” (2008)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/03/15 | Perspetivas Locais Acerca da Caça e Conservação nas Áreas Protegidas e não Protegidas na Guiné-Bissau
President of the jury
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Luis oliveira Sanca (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2023/12/06 | Impactos sociais do desenvolvimento de energia solar em meios urbanos. A importância da mudança de rotina após a transição
energética. Estudo de caso em Lisboa, Portugal
President of the jury
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Tereza Emilova Vasileva (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2023/09/07 | Genetic portrayal of two colobine monkeys inhabiting a continuous forest in Gola Rainforest National Park
Supervisor
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Darya Sevastópolska (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2018/10/19 | "Entre Predadores" Relações com a natureza a propósito da reintrodução do Lince-Ibérico
(Thesis) Arguer
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Margarida Fernandes (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2018/03/02 | Babuínos-hamadrias no Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa: como são ensinadas as crias?
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Marília Sofia Guerreiro Sargento (Master)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2017/12/20 | A country-level genetic survey of the IUCN critically endangered western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Filipa Borges (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2016/01/01 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia | |
2015/01/01 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia | Direção |
2010/01/01 - Current | International Primatological Society |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30 | VII Iberian Primatological Conference | Barcelona |
2019/03/01 - 2019/10/11 | 7th Iberian Primatological Conference | Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia |
2015/03/01 - 2015/11/20 | 5th Iberian Primatological Conference | Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2017/07/10 - 2017/07/12 | Primatology and Conservation | (Outros) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2019 - Current | Heredity (0018-067X) | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
2018 - Current | Folia Primatologica (1421-9980) | S. Karger AG |
2017 - Current | American Journal of Primatology (1098-2345) | Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) |
2017 - Current | Análise Social (2182-2999) | Instituto de Ciencias Sociais |
2016 - Current | Conservation Genetics Resources (1877-7260) | Springer-Verlag |
2015 - Current | PLoS ONE (1932-6203) | Public Library of Science |
2015 - Current | Herald Journal of Geography and Regional Planning | |
2022/04/08 - 2022/09/19 | Conservation Science and Practice (2578-4854) |
Distinctions
Other distinction
2009 | Menção Honrosa - comunicação oral
Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal
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