Personal identification

Full name

Rúben Micael Moreira Pereira

Citation names

• Pereira, Rúben

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

5B13-A722-7F7E

ORCID iD

0000-0001-8276-1011

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)

	Degree	Classification
2021 - 2025 Ongoing	Ciências do Meio Aquático ¿ Biologia e Ecologia (Doutoramento) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Impacts of microplastic contamination on primary producers and associated ecosystem services." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2022/03/07 - 2022/03/10 Concluded	INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Outros) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2020 Concluded	Ciências do Mar - Recursos Marinhos (Mestrado) Major in Área de especialização: Biologia e Ecologia Marinhas Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal "Environmental control of planktonic communities in a coastal Marine Protected Area (PNLN)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
2019/10/07 - 2019/10/10 Concluded	STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMING WITH R FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MODULE II: Main Statistical Modeling Frameworks (Outros) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2019/09/30 - 2019/10/03 Concluded	STATISTICS AND PROGRAMMING WITH R FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MODULE I: Introduction to R language (Outros) Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2018 Concluded	Curso de Mergulho - Open Water Diver (Outros) Haliotis, Portugal
2017 Concluded	Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "The importance of frequency and intensity of manual harvesting on the sustainable management of seaweed species with economic interest" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018 - 2020	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal
2015 - 2016	Research Trainee (Research)	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	PhD Student	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal (...)

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019 - 2020	NetTag - Tagging fishing gears and enhancing on board best-practices to promote waste free fisheries EASME/EMFF/2017/1.2.1.12 - Sustainable Blue Economy Other Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Concluded
2018 - 2020	OMARE- Marine Observatory of Esposende - Northern Littoral Marine Park Biodiversity for Science, Conservation and Sustainable Development POSEUR-03-2215-FC-000045 Tese de Mestrado	Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental UID/Multi/04423/2019 Universidade do Porto Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Ramos, Sandra; Rodrigues, Sabrina M.; Pereira, Rúben; Silva, Diogo; Almeida, C. Marisa R.. "Floatables and Plastic Debris in Estuarine and Coastal Marine Environments". In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier, 2024. 10.1016/b978-0-323-90798-9.00111-6
Conference poster	ESPINCHO, FRANCISCA; Sabrina Rodrigues Magalhães; Pereira, Rúben; Silva, Diogo; C. Marisa R. Almeida; Ramos, Sandra. Corresponding author: ESPINCHO, FRANCISCA. "Microplastics contamination of zooplankton from the Douro and Lima estuaries". Paper presented in 16.º Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto, 2023. Pereira, Rúben. "Pereira, R.; Rodrigues, S.M.; Silva, D.; Martins, M.; Sainz, H.; Arenas, F.; Ramos, S. "Environmental control of ichthyoplankton assemblages in a coastal Marine Protected Area "Parque Natural Litoral Norte (PNLN)"."". Paper presented in Blue Think Conference: Share Science, Spread Knowledge, 2020.
Journal article	Silva, Diogo M.; Almeida, C. Marisa R.; Guardiola, Francisco A.; Pereira, Rúben; Rodrigues, Sabrina M.; Ramos, Sandra. "Uncovering microplastics contamination in canned seafood". Food Chemistry (2024): 139049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.139049. 10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.139049 Espincho, Francisca; Pereira, Rúben; Rodrigues, Sabrina M.; Silva, Diogo M.; Almeida, C. Marisa R.; Ramos, Sandra. "Assessing Microplastic Contamination in Zooplanktonic Organisms from Two River Estuaries". Water (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/7/992. 10.3390/w16070992 Rúben Pereira; Sabrina M. Rodrigues; Diogo M. Silva; Sandra Ramos. "Assessing Environmental Control on Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Larval Fish Assemblages in a Marine Protected Area". Ecologies (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/ecologies4020019. 10.3390/ecologies4020019 Almeida, C. Marisa R.; Sáez-Zamacona, Iraide; Silva, Diogo M.; Rodrigues, Sabrina M.; Pereira, Rúben; Ramos, Sandra. "The Role of Estuarine Wetlands (Saltmarshes) in Sediment Microplastics Retention". Water 15 7 (2023): 1382. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15071382. Published • 10.3390/w15071382 Rúben Pereira; Rúben Pereira; Sabrina M. Rodrigues; Diogo Silva; Vânia Freitas; C. Marisa R. Almeida; Sandra Ramos. "Microplastic contamination in large migratory fishes collected in the open Atlantic Ocean". Marine Pollution Bulletin 186 (2023): 114454-114454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114454. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114454 Rodrigues, Sabrina M.; Silva, Diogo; Cunha, Jacinto; Pereira, Rúben; Freitas, Vânia; Ramos, Sandra. "Environmental influences, particularly river flow alteration, on larval fish assemblages in the Douro Estuary, Portugal". Regional Studies in Marine Science (2022): 102617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102617. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102617
Report	Pereira, Rúben. 2020. Arenas F., Martins M., Silva D., Pereira R., Bogalho A., Meyer H., Vale C., Casalís, H., Almeida C., Carvalho F., Magalhães C., Mucha A.P., Bio A., Froufe E., Castro F., Franco J., Ramos S. (2020). Observatório Marinho de Esposende. Ação 2 | Inventariação, monitorização, cartografia e gestão da biodiversidade marinha. Relatório final do contrato de prestação de serviços 107/2017.
Thesis / Dissertation	Rúben Micael Moreira Pereira. "Environmental control of planktonic communities in a coastal Marine Protected Area (PNLN)". Master, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/131976.

Award

2021	PhD Scholarship (2021.04850.BD) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal