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I am a dedicated marine biologist currently awaiting the defense of my PhD thesis, "EMERGING: Environmental Mixtures of Emerging Contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generations." My research expertise lies at the intersection of Natural Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Earth and Environmental Sciences, particularly in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry. Throughout my academic career, I have authored 12 published articles, including 8 as the first author, as well as one book chapter in English and two in Portuguese. My work has extensively explored the impact of emerging contaminants on marine organisms, focusing on key areas such as nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals, in vivo bioassays, micro- and nano-plastics, bioaccumulation, biochemical biomarkers, and proteomics. Highly organized, punctual, and team-oriented, I am a quick and eager learner who thrives in collaborative research environments. I am actively seeking opportunities where I can apply my expertise, contribute to innovative scientific advancements, and continue to grow professionally.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joanna Melissa Ribeiro Gonçalves

Citation names

  • Gonçalves, Joanna M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2D1D-F33A-FB48
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3242-1032

Email addresses

  • jmgoncalves@ualg.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 289800900 Ext.: 7896 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIMA) University of Algarve, Edifício 7, Campus Universitário de Gambelas , 8005-139 , Gambelas, Faro, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/11/01 - 2025/02/28
Ongoing
 PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Ecotoxicology
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
"EMERGING: Environmental Mixtures of Emerging contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/09 - 2018/04/20
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Major in Ecotoxicologia
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
"Assessing cadmium-based quantum dots effects in the gonads of the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
2010/09 - 2014/06
Concluded
 Biologia Marinha (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
 12
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/09 - 2025/02/28 Researcher (Research) Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, University of Algarve, Portugal
Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, University of Algarve, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/10/01 - Current EMERGEMIX - Effects of the mixtures of emerging contaminants in aquatic ecosystems: a multi-level approach to biological organization
PTDC/BIA-BMA/30922/2017 EMERGEMIX
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/05/04 - 2023/04/01 Effects of a mixture of Nano and Microplastics on the clam Ruditapes decussatus
6F1C-03CD-1B7A
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020 - Current RESPONSE
FCT JPIOCEANS/0005/2020
Researcher
Joint Programming Initiative for Healthy Oceans and Seas, Belgium
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2019/10 - Current RhizoMiS - Manipulation of the Salicornia rhizosphere microbiome to explore bioproducts and improve bioprocesses
PTDC/BIA-MIC/29736/2017 RiZOMIS
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/08/01 - Current Mining Impact 2 - Environmental impacts and risks of deep-sea mining, JPI Oceans
Mining2/2017/001
Other
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Direção Geral de Política do Mar
Ongoing
2020/01 - 2023/05 PLASTICSEA
FA_06_2017_046 PLASTICSEA
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/01 - 2019/06 EPHEMARE - ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MICROPLASTICS IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
EPHEMARE JPIOCEANS/0005/2015
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Concluded
2014/04 - 2015/06 NANOECOTOX-Impacts of metal nanoparticles to aquatic ecosystems: from community responses to cellular targets
NANOECOTOX PTDC/AAC-AMB /121650/2010
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/01 - 2013/07 FUDGE
FUDGE (PTDC/MAR/110251/2009)
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria João; Rosas, Eloah. "O lixo marinho. O que são microplásticos e nanoplásticos? Como chegam ao oceano?". In Micro e Nanoplásticos: um Macroproblema, edited by Delminda Moura; Isabel Mendes; Jaime Anibal; Ana C. Gomes, 21-32. Faro, Portugal: CIMA/ARNET, Universidade do Algarve, 2023.
    Published
  2. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria João. "Efeitos de micro e nanoplásticos em moluscos bivalves.". In Micro e Nanoplásticos: um Macroproblema, edited by Delminda Moura; Isabel Mendes; Jaime Anibal; Ana C. Gomes, 83-92. Faro, Portugal: CIMA/ARNET, Universidade do Algarve, 2023.
    Published
  3. Bebianno, Maria João; Cristina, Sónia; Nathan, Justine; Goela, Priscila; Martins, Flávio; Rosas, Eloah; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Moura, Delminda. "Será que há microplásticos na costa sul de Portugal?". In Micro e Nanoplásticos: um Macroproblema, edited by Delminda Moura; Isabel Mendes; Jaime Aníbal; Ana Gomes, 65-81. Faro, Portugal, Portugal: Universidade do Algarve, CIMA - Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental e ARNET - Rede de Infraestrutura em Recursos Aquáticos, 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34623/tz6d-k552
  4. Alkimin, Gilberto Dias de; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Nathan, Justine; Bebianno, Maria João. "Impact of Micro and Nanoplastics in the Marine Environment". In Assessing the Effects of Emerging Plastics on the Environment and Public Health, 172-225. IGI Global, 2022.
    10.4018/978-1-7998-9723-1.ch009
Conference abstract
  1. Ventura, Emma; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Vilke, Juliano; d'Errico, Giuseppe; Benedetti, Maura; Regoli, Francesco; Bebianno, Maria João. "Are mixtures of micro/nanoplastics more toxic than their individual counterparts in the clam Ruditapes decussatus?". Paper presented in PRIMO22, Nantes, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Benedetti, Maura; d’Errico, Giuseppe; Regoli, Francesco; Bebianno, Maria João.. "Gender differentiating effects of a mixture of emerging contaminants in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Paper presented in PRIMO22 - 22nd Pollution Responses to Marine Organisms, Nantes, 2024.
    Published
  3. Ventura E.; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Maria João Bebianno. Corresponding author: Maria João Bebianno. "Toxicity of a mixture of NPs and MPs in Ruditapes decussatus: are mixtures less toxic than individual NPs and MPs contamination?". Paper presented in 10th international Conference on Environmental Management, Engineering, Planning and Economics and Secotox Conference, Skiathos island, 2023.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Gonçalves, Joanna M.. "Toxicity assessment of polystyrene nanoparticles in the bacteria Allivibrio fischeri and its ingestion in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Paper presented in Ciência 2023 - Encontro com a Ciência e a Tecnologia em Portugal: Ciência e Oceano para além do horizonte, 2023.
  2. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria João. "Neurotoxicity of polystyrene nanoplastics and their ingestion in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Paper presented in Micro2022, 2022.
  3. Gonçalves, Joanna M.. "EMERGING: Environmental Mixtures of Emerging contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generations". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2021, 2021.
  4. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Juliano Vilke; Mestre, N. C.; FONSECA, TAINÁ (CC10-4E47-B6DD); Vânia Serrão Sousa; Maria João Bebianno. "Effects of in vitro and in vivo exposure of polystyrene nanoplastics in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Paper presented in Micro2020, 2020.
Journal article
  1. Gonçalves, J.M.; Benedetti, M.; d'Errico, G.; Regoli, F.; Bebianno, M.J.. "Gender effects of nanoplastics and emerging contaminants mixtures in Mytilus galloprovincialis". Aquatic Toxicology 279 (2025): 107219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107219.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.aquatox.2024.107219
  2. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Mendes, Vera M.; MANADAS, BRUNO; Bebianno, Maria João. Corresponding author: Bebianno, Maria João. "Gender differences in protein expression after polystyrene nanoplastics exposure in mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis". Journal of Hazardous Materials (2025):
    Submitted
  3. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria João. Corresponding author: Bebianno, Maria João. "Nanoplastic effects on spermatozoa, oocytes and larval development of the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Emerging Contaminants (2025):
    Submitted
  4. Emma Ventura; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Vilke, Juliano Marcelo; Giuseppe d’Errico; Maura Benedetti; Francesco Regoli; Bebianno, Maria João. "Are mixtures of micro/nanoplastics more toxic than individual micro or nanoplastic contamination in the clam Ruditapes decussatus?". Marine Pollution Bulletin 206 116697 (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116697
  5. Vilke, Juliano M.; Fonseca, Tainá G.; Alkimin, Gilberto D.; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Edo, Carlos; Errico, Giuseppe d’; Seilitz, Fredric Södergren; et al. "Looking beyond the obvious: the ecotoxicological impact of the leachate from fishing nets and cables in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Journal of Hazardous Materials (2024): 134479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134479.
    10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134479
  6. Fonseca, Tainá; Edo, Carlos; Vilke, Juliano M.; Astudillo-Pascual, Marina; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria J.. "Impact of face masks weathering on the mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis". Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics 3 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/wecn.2023.57.
    10.20517/wecn.2023.57
  7. J.M. Gonçalves; M. Benedetti; G. d’Errico; F. Regoli; M.J. Bebianno. "Polystyrene nanoplastics in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis.". Environmental Pollution (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122104.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122104
  8. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, M.J.. Corresponding author: Bebianno, M.J.. "Ecotoxicity of emerging contaminants in the reproductive organ of marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis". Science of The Total Environment 881 (2023): 163486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163486.
    Open access • Accepted • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163486
  9. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Beckmann, Clara; Bebianno, Maria João. Corresponding author: Bebianno, Maria João. "Assessing the effects of the cytostatic drug 5-Fluorouracil alone and in a mixture of emerging contaminants on the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Chemosphere 305 (2022): 135462. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135462.
    10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135462
  10. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Sousa, Vânia Serrão; Teixeira, Margarida Ribau; Bebianno, Maria João. "Chronic toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Chemosphere 287 (2022): 132356. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132356.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132356
  11. Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Bebianno, Maria João. "Nanoplastics impact on marine biota: A review". Environmental Pollution 273 (2021): 116426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116426.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116426
  12. Islam, Naimul; Garcia da Fonseca, Tainá; Vilke, Juliano; Gonçalves, Joanna M.; Pedro, Paulo; Keiter, Steffen; Cunha, Sara C.; Fernandes, José O.; Bebianno, M.J.. "Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) adsorbed to polyethylene microplastics: Accumulation and ecotoxicological effects in the clam Scrobicularia plana". Marine Environmental Research 164 (2021): 105249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105249.
    10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105249
  13. Gonçalves, J.M.; Rocha, T.; Mestre, N.C.; Fonseca, T.G.; Bebianno, M.J.. "Assessing cadmium-based quantum dots effect on the gonads of the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Marine Environmental Research 156 (2020): 104904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104904.
    10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104904
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gonçalves, Joanna M.. "Assessing Cadmium-based Quantum dots effects on the gonads of the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis". Master, Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12266.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/05/27 Gender differentiating effects of a mixture of emerging contaminants in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. PRIMO22 - 22nd Pollution Responses to Marine Organisms
Ifremer (Nantes, France)
2024/01 “EMERGING - Environmental Mixtures of Emerging Contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generation” - Seminar III (Classification 19/20) Seminars for PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences program
University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2023/06/07 Toxicity of mixture of NPs and MPs in Ruditapes decussatus: are mixtures less toxic than individual NPs and MPs concentration. CEMEPE/SECOTOX
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Skiathos Island, Greece)
2023/01 “EMERGING - Environmental Mixtures of Emerging Contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generation” - Seminar II (Classification 19/20) Seminars for PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences program
University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2022/05/25 Impact of the leachate from surgical face masks in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis The 21st International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO"21)
PRIMO committee (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2022/05/25 Ecotoxicity of emerging contaminants individually and as a mixture in the reproductive organ of marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis The 21st International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO"21)
PRIMO committee (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2022/01 “EMERGING - Environmental Mixtures of Emerging Contaminants Repercussions on Gonads and Impact on Next Generation” - Seminar I (Classification 19/20) Seminars for PhD in Marine, Earth and Environmental Sciences program
University of Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2021/12/01 Assessing the effects of the cytostatic drug 5-Fluorouracil and a mixture of emerging contaminants on the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis CICTA 2021
9th Ibero-American Congress on Contamination an Environmental Toxicology (Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil)
2021/11/30 in vivo exposure effects of polystyrene nanoplastics in the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis CICTA 2021
9th Ibero-American Congress on Contamination and Environmental Toxicology (Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/07 - 2023/07 Toxicity of a mixture of NPs and MPs in Ruditapes decussatus: are mixtures less toxic than individual NPs and MPs contamination?
Co-supervisor of Emma Ventura
 Biologia Marinha (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
2020/09 - 2021/09 Assessing the effects of the cytostatic drug 5-Fluorouracil and of a mixture of emerging contaminants on the marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis
Co-supervisor of Clara Beckmann
 European MSC in Marine Environment and Resources (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2021 Ocean Award
Mirpuri Foundation, Portugal