|| PhD DEGREE: Viviana Martins (VM) completed her PhD in 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,
where she currently affiliated.
|| 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 (8 articles published in the past 3 years 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 publications include articles in indexed journals including Food Chemistry and Food Microbioloty,
chapters in viticulture and berry biochemistry books, and communications in national/international conferences, with 3 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.
