Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Isa Gameiro Aleixo Pais
Citation names
- Isa Aleixo-Pais
- Isa Aleixo Pais
- Isa, Pais
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 3B1F-4EA6-5719
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2730-3688
Websites
- https://cimo.ipb.pt/index.php?r=olderresearcher/view&id=954 (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Greek | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2017/04/01 - 2022/06/30
Concluded
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PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Antropologia Biológica & Biodiversidade e Conservação
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal "The use of plants by human and non-human primates in altered landscapes: dietary flexibility or local adaptation?" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Minor corrections |
2015 - 2016
Concluded
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Participação Pública Activa e Gestão de Conflictos I-III (Outros)
Liga para a Protecção da Natureza, Portugal
Mediate Domain, Lda, Portugal |
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2010/09/01 - 2011/11/01
Concluded
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Biologia da Conservação (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Genetic diversity of a little known leur species from the north of Madagascar (Microcebus tavaratra)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 (em 20 valores) |
1999/09/20 - 2002/06/30
Concluded
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BSc (Hons) Biology (Bachelor)
University of South Wales School of Applied Sciences, United Kingdom
"Acclimation and acclimatization of woodlice (Porcellio scaber)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 (em 20 valores) |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/04/28 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal |
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal | ||
2022/06/18 - 2022/08/31 | Researcher (Research) | Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust UK, Jersey |
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom | ||
2010/05/01 - 2017/03/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
2000/07/01 - 2000/08/01 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade de Évora Laboratório de Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2023/09/01 - 2024/03/31 | Invited 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 | ||
2022/09/01 - 2023/03/31 | Invited 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 |
Other Careers
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/09 - 2022/02 | Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom |
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom | ||
2007/12/01 - 2010/04/01 | Professor do ensino básico e secundário (Professor do ensino básico e secundário) | Ciência Divertida - Team, Lda, Portugal |
2003/04/01 - 2004/08/01 | Coordenador (Técnico de Diagnóstico e Terapêutica - Técnico de Análises Clínicas e de Saúde Pública) | The PAREXEL International Clinical Pharmacology Research Unit, United Kingdom |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2007/03/01 - 2007/11/01 | Assistente de serviços gerais - Centro de Vida Marinha | Jardim Zoológico e de Aclimação em Portugal, S.A., Portugal |
2006/05/01 - 2006/10/01 | NGO Project Leader | ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Greece |
2004/12/01 - 2006/04/01 | Teaching Assistant - supporting children with learning difficulties | Oaklands Secondary School, United Kingdom |
2004/09/01 - 2004/12/01 | Laboratory Technician in Secondary schools | Capita Education Recruitment, United Kingdom |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2017/04 - 2021/10 | The use of plants by human and non-human primates: diet flexibility or local adaptation?
SFRH/BD/118444/2016
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/04/28 - Current | Local adaptative responses of pastoralism to climate change in the Natural Park of Montesinho Portugal
Post-doc Fellow
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/04/01 - 2019/11/30 | Comparative landscape evolutionary genomics of West-African primates: a contribution of the anthropological biology to their
conservation plan
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2016/06/01 - 2019/11/30 | Genómica da paisagem comparada em primatas não-humanos da Africa Ociedental: uma contribuiçao da antropologia biológica para
seu plano de conservação
PTDC/IVC-ANT/3058/2014
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2013/05/01 - 2016/03/31 | Perda e Fragmentação de habitat ao longo do tempo e do espaço do ponto de vista de vertebrados de Madagáscar
PTDC/BIA-BIC/4476/2012
Research Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/05/01 - 2013/03/31 | Genetic effects of habitat loss and fragmentation: comparative analysis of several lemur species in two neighbouring regions
of Madagascar.
Research Fellow
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference abstract |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Translation |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/04/11 | A pastorícia, transformações e resistência, pelo olhar das mulheres. | Comuns: III Encontro de Ecologia Política
CRIA, CES (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2022/10/06 | Wild plant overlap between sympatric human and nonhuman primates in a less fragmented rainforest and an anthropogenic landscape. | VIII Iberian Primatological Conference
Associação de Primatologia Espanhola; Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
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2020/03/03 | The sharing of natural resources between Mende people and non-human primates in the tropical forest of Gola (Sierra Leone) | International Seminar on Environment and Society: current challenges and pathways to change / Seminário Internacional sobre
Ambiente e Sociedada: desafios atuais e trajetórias de mudança
Instituto de Ciências Socias, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2019/10/09 | The sharing of natural resources between Mende people and non-human primates in the tropical forest of Gola (Sierra Leone) | 7ª Conferência Ibérica de Primatologia
Sociedade Portuguesa de Primatologia (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2017/11/04 | The use of plants by humans and non-human primates in altered landscapes: dietary flexibility or local adaptation? | Wales Ecology & Evolution Network 2017
WEEN - Wales Ecology & Evolution Network (Powys, United Kingdom)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30 | Noite Europeia dos Investigadores - Conservation challenges on Human-wildlife coexistence: Caminhando nas pegadas de um primatólogo (2023/09/30 - 2023/09/30)
Festival
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Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal |
2019/06 - 2019/10 | Member of the organising committee. Contributed to the conference logistics, including marketing, and supported participants
and invited speakers. (2019/10/09 - 2019/10/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia, Portugal |
2018 - 2018 | "Primate Conservation Genetics" Workshop (2018/06/05 - 2018/06/05)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Njala University, Sierra Leone |
2008/06/15 - 2009/08/31 | Desenvolvimento de actividades de ciência para programas de Escolas de Verão em escolas primárias e secundárias. Coordenação
dos projectos e respectivas equipas de monitores. (2008/06/15 - 2009/08/31)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Saint Dominics International School, Portugal Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria, Portugal Colégio Oriente, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2017/07/10 - 2017/07/12 | Three days of presentations, paper discussion and practical management planning for the conservation of non-human primates.
Workshop
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Primatology and Conservation Summer School
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/05 | Two days of lectures and three days of practicals on DNA metabarcoding. This is a rapidly evolving method for assessing biodiversity
from environmental DNA and bulk samples used in a wide range of applications: biodiversity monitoring, animal diet assessment,
reconstruction of paleo communities, etc. DNA metabarcoding uses molecular techniques such as PCR and next generation sequencing,
and integrates skills in bioinformatics and biostatistics with classical ecological knowledge.
Workshop
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7th Metabarcoding Spring School, metabarcoding.org
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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2017/03/15 - 2017/03/17 | Histories of Nature and Environment, Portuguese Network of Environmental History
Meeting
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Histories of Nature and Environment, Portuguese Network of Environmental History
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2017/02/18 - 2017/02/18 | One day workshop on primate conservation, with expert primatologists and anthropologists
Workshop
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Workshop on Primate Conservation
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2017 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Primatologia | sócia |
2012 - Current | Liga para a Protecção da Natureza | sócia |
2010 - Current | Amnistia Internacional | sócia |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | Member of the advisory board for the Frozen Ark charity, a Biobank for cells and DNA of endangered species.
Advisor / Consultant
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Frozen Ark, United Kingdom |
2017 - Current | A Associação Para as Ciências do Mar é uma associação científica sem fins lucrativos, criada em 2009, que tem como missão
promover a investigação, divulgação e conservação do meio marinho. Conta com a colaboração de profissionais, estudantes e
voluntários de diferentes áreas, como a biologia, ecologia, história, arte e engenharia, todos eles com a vontade e o objetivo
de contribuir para o melhor conhecimento e divulgação dos Oceanos de modo a preservá-los para as gerações futuras.¿
Advisor / Consultant
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Associação Para as Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | CEEDER (Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Database of Evidence Reviews) Review College members rate the reliability of evidence reviews and overviews using CEESAT (the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Synthesis Appraisal Tool). These publications and respective rating are available in an open access Evidence Service for decision makers in policy and practice and the general public (https://environmentalevidence.org/ceeder-search/). | Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, United Kingdom |
2016 - 2017 | co-cordenação de um processo participativo (CIMULACT - Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon 2020), que forneceu uma contribuição única para as políticas e tópicos de investigação e de inovação europeias. | Mediate Domain, Lda, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2022/09/05 - 2024/02/28 | Biologia & Cultura | Antropologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2018/12/13 - 2018/12/13 | Etnoprimatologia | Antropologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2018/04/04 - 2018/04/04 | Etnoprimatologia | Antropologia (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2015/11/27 - 2015/11/27 | Biologia da Conservação | Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente (Graduado) | Universidade Lusófona Guiné, Guinea-Bissau |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2019 - 2022 | Conservation Biology, Statistics, Plant and human physiology, Cell biology | BSc and MSc students at School of Biosciences, Cardiff University |
2019 - 2021 | Leprosy transmission in wild primates in Cantanhez NP, Guinea-Bissau, PhD | Marina Ramon Gorina |
2019 - 2020 | DNA Barcoding and Phylogenetic Analysis of Western Primate Species using Faecal Samples, BSc | Megan Hooker |
2018 - 2019 | Técnicas de amostragem e manuseamento de amostras não-invasivas no campo. | F. Borges, M. Songe, M. Nyallah, T. Payne, M. Cassama, I. Camará, C. Ramos |
2016 - 2017 | The genetics of two colobus species from West Africa, MSc | Rúben Oliveira |
2015 - 2016 | The genetics of the Western Chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau, MSc | Filipa Borges |
2015 - 2016 | The genetics of two Propithecus species from Madagascar, BSc | Rita Monteiro |
2014 - 2015 | Population Genetics and Conservation, BSc | Helena Teixeira |
2012 - 2012 | Population Genetics and Conservation, MSc | Carla Lopes |
2011 - 2012 | Population Genetics and Conservation, MSc | Marion Carreira |
2010 - 2012 | Population Genetics and Conservation, MSc | Célia Kun-Rodrigues |
Scientific expedition
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2011 - 2019 | Preparação de expedição para trabalho de campo para recolha de amostras não-invasivas de primatas, e entrevistas a residentes dos Parques Nacionais (Madagáscar, Serra Leoa e Guiné-Bissau). | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences, United Kingdom Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
2019 | Public Engagement Proof-of-Concept Award - #ARKS21stCentury
Wellcome Trust ISSF3 Public Engagement Proof-of-Concept Award, United Kingdom
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Other distinction
2012 | Short Visit Grant "Conservation Genomics: Amalgamation of Conservation Genetics and Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics"
European Science Foundation, France
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