Silvia Patricia Nunes Monteiro (9413-0FDE-C6BB)

Curriculum Vitae

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Silvia Patricia Nunes Monteiro

Citation names

Monteiro, Silvia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9413-0FDE-C6BB
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9943-0742

Telephones

Telephone

218417110 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Microbiology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2017 Concluded	Environmental Microbiology (Doutoramento) University of Brighton, United Kingdom "Integration of culture- and molecular-based water quality monitoring tools to protect human health" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	n/a
2007 Concluded	Mestrado em Química (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Detecção de enterovirus em águas balneares da Costa do Estoril. Avaliação de novos indicadores para este tipo de águas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/07/01 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2008/03/01 - 2023/06/30	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2005/01/01 - Current	Occurence of Mycobacteria in Extreme Environments OMB#1024-023 Researcher	Fundação Luso-Americana Ongoing
2023/03/01 - 2026/02/28	Avaliar o papel da arquitetura dos biofilmes na colonização de Legionella e no risco de libertação em rede de águas hospitalares com recurso a monitorização integrada 2022.03523.PTDC 10.54499/2022.03523.PTDC Researcher Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2024/09/30	SARA: Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances in Aquatic Ecosystems 280 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2021 - 2024	oint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) program, project Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance in Aquatic Ecosystems (SARA), grant number Aquatic/0006/2020 Aquatic/0006/2020 Researcher	Ongoing
2021 - 2024	Surveillance of Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances in Aquatic Ecosystems (SARA) Aquatic/0006/2020 Researcher	Ongoing
2020/10/01 - 2023/09/30	CAPTURA- Uso de partículas funcionalizadas para enriquecimento e detecção eficiente de SARS-CoV-2 em amostras clínicas e ambientais 72536 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022/02/01 - 2023/02/01	Support to the Member States to establish national systems, local collection points, and digital infrastructure for monitoring Covid 19 and its variants in wastewaters – Portugal 060701/2021/864489/SUB/ENV.C2 Principal investigator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2021 - 2023	Testar com Ciência e Solidariedade” - COVID-19, project CAPTURA- Uso de partículas funcionalizadas para enriquecimento e detecção eficiente de SARS-CoV-2 em amostras clínicas e ambientais SAICTCOVID/72536/2020 Researcher	Concluded
2020/12/01 - 2021/11/30	SARS-Control - Avaliação dos impactos de SARS-CoV-2 no ciclo urbano da água e dos efeitos a jusante em Saúde Pública AAC 15/SI/2020 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2020/04/16 - 2021/04/30	COVIDETECT - - Detection, quantification and eco-epidemiological modelling of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater as an early warning tool for viral spread in the community LISBOA-01-02B7-FEDER-048467 Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2020 - 2021	COVIDETECT 048467 Researcher	Concluded
2013/03 - 2018/02	AQUAVALENS - Protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation FP7 KBBE-CALL 6-311849	N/A
2012 - 2015	Giardia and Cryptosporidium in surface and treated water of Denali National Park Discovery Denali 2012 Researcher	National Park Service
2013 - 2014	POLYCER - Efeitos da actividade microbiana no desempenho de pastas cerâmicas na prensagem unidireccional EXPL/CTM-CER/0637/2012	Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
2005/09/01 - 2008/09/01	Detecção e Identificação de Enterovirus em águas balneares da costa do Estoril: Origem desta contaminação e sua correlação com virus da comunidade. Avaliação de novos bioindicadores para este tipo de águas FCG 77867 Other	Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo; Bláha, Ludek; Codd, Geoffrey A.. "Lipopolysaccharide Endotoxins". In Handbook of Cyanobacterial Monitoring and Cyanotoxin Analysis, 165-172. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. 10.1002/9781119068761.ch17 Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia. "Epidemiology, control, and prevention of emerging zoonotic viruses". In Viruses in Food and Water, 442-457. Elsevier, 2013. 10.1533/9780857098870.4.442
Conference abstract	Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo. "New Perspectives in Water Microbiology". Paper presented in Special Seminar - Environmental Engineering, São Francisco, 2018. Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo. "When Microbiology and Chemistry Meet". Paper presented in DEQTalk, 2018. Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia. "Avaliação do Legiolert™ na deteção e quantificação de Legionella pneumophila em amostras de água". Paper presented in III Reunião sobre analises Microbiologicas de águas, Lisboa, 2018. Monteiro, Silvia. "Microbiological quality in small water supplies: are the traditional indicators enough?". Paper presented in Lisbon Small water systems workshop, Lisboa, 2018. Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia. "Tough guys: Resilience in the microbial world". Tempe, 2017. Monteiro, Silvia; Ebdon, James; Santos, Ricardo; Taylor, Huw. "An assessment of the suitability of MST methods to determine human and non-human faecal inputs into the river Tejo, Portugal". Paper presented in New approaches to monitoring waterborne disease transmission in Brazil and the UK, São Paulo, 2016. Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia. "Microbial Source Tracking – o CSI da Microbiologia". Paper presented in Directiva dos Nitratos, Lisboa, 2015. Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo. "Emergent Microorganisms and New Technologies". Paper presented in Jornada da Água, Lisboa, 2015. Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo. "Combined Sewer Overflow: A Silent Pollutant". Paper presented in Global Leadership Initiative Special Workshop on Water Virology, Tóquio, 2013. Published
Journal article	Robalo, A.; Brandão, J.; Shibata, T.; Solo-Gabriele, H.; Santos, R.; Monteiro, S.. "Detection of enteric viruses and SARS-CoV-2 in beach sand". Science of The Total Environment 901 (2023): 165836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165836. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165836 Pires, Joana; Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Sílvia. "Antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from wastewater treatment plant and hospital wastewaters". Science of The Total Environment 892 (2023): 164708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164708. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164708 Monteiro, Sílvia; Machado-Moreira, Bernardino; Linke, Rita; Blanch, Anicet R.; Ballesté, Elisenda; Méndez, Javier; Maunula, Leena; et al. "Performance of bacterial and mitochondrial qPCR source tracking methods: A European multi-center study". International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 253 (2023): 114241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114241. Published • 10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114241 Silva, Ana R.; Mesquita, Daniela P.; Salomé Duarte, M.; Lado Ribeiro, Ana R.; Pereira, M.Fernando R.; Madalena Alves, M.; Monteiro, Sílvia; et al. "Exploring the correlations between epi indicators of COVID-19 and the concentration of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater treatment plants in Northern Portugal". Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 10 (2023): 100315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2023.100315. 10.1016/j.hazadv.2023.100315 Nhantumbo, Clemêncio; Cangi Vaz, Nídia; Rodrigues, Mery; Manuel, Cândido; Rapulua, Sífia; Langa, Jéssica; Nhantumbo, Hélio; et al. "Assessment of Microbial Contamination in the Infulene River Basin, Mozambique". Water 15 2 (2023): 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15020219. 10.3390/w15020219 Lia Schmidt Fernandes; Ana Galvão; Ricardo Santos; Silvia Monteiro. "Impact of water reuse on agricultural practices and human health". Environmental Research 216 (2023): 114762-114762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114762. 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114762 Figueiredo, Ana Sofia; Ferraria, Ana Maria; Botelho do Rego, Ana Maria; Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo; Minhalma, Miguel; Sánchez-Loredo, María Guadalupe; Tovar-Tovar, Rosa Lina; de Pinho, Maria Norberta. "Bactericide Activity of Cellulose Acetate/Silver Nanoparticles Asymmetric Membranes: Surfaces and Porous Structures Role". Membranes 13 1 (2022): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010004. Published • 10.3390/membranes13010004 Silvia Monteiro; Helena M. Galvão; Pedro J. Mendes; Aida Figueiredo; Ricardo Santos. "SARS-CoV-2 contamination potential in environmental and wastewaters in the Algarve region, Southern Portugal". Frontiers in Water 4 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.1026768. 10.3389/frwa.2022.1026768 Monteiro, Silvia; Rente, Daniela; Cunha, Mónica V.; Marques, Tiago A.; Cardoso, Eugénia; Vilaça, João; Coelho, Norberta; et al. "Discrimination and surveillance of infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 in wastewater using cell culture and RT-qPCR". Science of The Total Environment 815 (2022): 152914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.152914. Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.152914 Monteiro, Silvia; Rente, Daniela; Cunha, Mónica V.; Marques, Tiago A.; Cardoso, Eugénia; Álvaro, Pedro; Vilaça, João; et al. "Recovery of SARS-CoV-2 from large volumes of raw wastewater is enhanced with the inuvai R180 system". Journal of Environmental Management 304 (2022): 114296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114296. Published • 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114296 Monteiro, Silvia; Rente, Daniela; Cunha, Mónica V.; Gomes, Manuel Carmo; Marques, Tiago A.; Lourenço, Artur B.; Cardoso, Eugénia; et al. "A wastewater-based epidemiology tool for COVID-19 surveillance in Portugal". Science of The Total Environment 804 (2022): 150264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150264. Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150264 Ferreira, O.; Monteiro, O.C.; do Rego, A.M. Botelho; Ferraria, A.M.; Batista, M.; Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia; Freire, M.; Silva, E.R.. "Visible light-driven photodegradation of triclosan and antimicrobial activity against Legionella pneumophila with cobalt and nitrogen co-doped TiO2 anatase nanoparticles". Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 9 6 (2021): 106735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.106735. Published • 10.1016/j.jece.2021.106735 Monteiro, Silvia; Ebdon, J.; Santos, Ricardo; Taylor, H.. "Elucidation of fecal inputs into the River Tagus catchment (Portugal) using source-specific mitochondrial DNA, HAdV, and phage markers". Science of The Total Environment 783 (2021): 147086. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147086. Published • 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147086 Monteiro, Silvia; Queiroz, Gaspar; Ferreira, Filipa; Santos, Ricardo. "Characterization of Stormwater Runoff Based on Microbial Source Tracking Methods". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): 674047. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.674047. Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2021.674047 Ballesté, Elisenda; Blanch, Anicet R.; Mendez, Javier; Sala-Comorera, Laura; Maunula, Leena; Monteiro, Silvia; Farnleitner, Andreas H.; et al. "Bacteriophages Are Good Estimators of Human Viruses Present in Water". Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021): 619495. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.619495. Published • 10.3389/fmicb.2021.619495 Monteiro, Silvia; Robalo, Adriana M.; Santos, Ricardo. "Evaluation of Legiolert™ for the Detection of Legionella pneumophila and Comparison with Spread-Plate Culture and qPCR Methods". Current Microbiology 78 5 (2021): 1792-1797. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00284-021-02436-6. 10.1007/s00284-021-02436-6 Olga Regina Ferreira; Patricia Rijo; Gomes, J. F. P.; Ricardo Santos; Silvia Monteiro; Rita Guedes; Maria Luisa Serralheiro; et al. "Antimicrobial Ceramic Filters for Water Bio-Decontamination". Coatings (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/11/3/323. 10.3390/coatings11030323 Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo. "Incidence of enterococci resistant to clinically relevant antibiotics in environmental waters and in reclaimed waters used for irrigation". Journal of Water and Health 18 6 (2020): 911-924. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wh.2020.020. 10.2166/wh.2020.020 Monteiro, Silvia; Smigic, Nada; Rajkovic, Andreja; Santos, Ricardo. "Efficiency of PEG secondary concentration and PCR for the simultaneous concentration and quantification of foodborne bacteria, viruses and protozoa". FEMS Microbiology Letters 367 10 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaa085. 10.1093/femsle/fnaa085 Monteiro, Silvia. "Detection of toxins involved in foodborne diseases caused by gram positive bacteria". Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (2020): Accepted Ballesté, Elisenda; Belanche-Muñoz, Luis A.; Farnleitner, Andreas H.; Linke, Rita; Sommer, Regina; Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia; et al. "Improving the identification of the source of faecal pollution in water using a modelling approach: From multi-source to aged and diluted samples". Water Research 171 (2020): 115392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.115392. 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115392 Monteiro, Silvia. "Water safety plan enhancements with improved drinking water quality detection techniques". Science of The Total Environment (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134185. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134185 Machado-Moreira, Bernardino; Monteiro, Silvia; Santos, Ricardo; Martinez-Murcia, Antonio; Rajkovic, Andreja; Smigic, Nada; Richards, Karl G.; Abram, Florence; Burgess, Catherine M.. "Impact of beef extract used for sample concentration on the detection of Escherichia coli DNA in water samples via qPCR". Journal of Microbiological Methods 168 (2020): 105786. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105786. Published • 10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105786 Ferreira, Olga; Rijo, Patrícia; Gomes, João F.; Santos, Ricardo; Monteiro, Silvia; Vilas-Boas, Cátia; Correia-da-Silva, Marta; et al. "Biofouling Inhibition with Grafted Econea Biocide: Toward a Nonreleasing Eco-Friendly Multiresistant Antifouling Coating". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8 1 (2019): 12-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b04550. 10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b04550 Monteiro, Silvia. "Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage". Nature Microbiology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0494-6. Published • 10.1038/s41564-019-0494-6 Angela M. Garcia-Sanchez; Bernardino Machado-Moreira; Mário Freire; Ricardo Santos; Silvia Monteiro; Diamantino Dias; Neves O.; Amélia Dionísio; Ana Zélia Miller. "Characterization of Microbial Communities Associated with Ceramic Raw Materials as Potential Contributors for the Improvement of Ceramic Rheological Properties". Minerals (2019): https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/5/316. 10.3390/min9050316 Monteiro, Silvia. "Synthesis and bactericide activity of nanofiltration composite membranes – Cellulose acetate/silver nanoparticles and cellulose acetate/silver ion exchanged zeolites". Water Research (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.10.096. 10.1016/j.watres.2018.10.096 Monteiro, Silvia. "Inactivation of parasite transmission stages: Efficacy of treatments on food of animal origin". Trends in Food Science & Technology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2018.11.009. 10.1016/j.tifs.2018.11.009 Monteiro, Silvia. "Reverse transcription-quantitative PCR assays for genotype-specific detection of human noroviruses in clinical and environmental samples". International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.02.008. 10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.02.008 Monteiro, Silvia. "Development of a novel digital RT-PCR method for detection of human sapovirus in different matrices". Journal of Virological Methods (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.01.005. 10.1016/j.jviromet.2018.01.005 Monteiro, Silvia. "Enzymatic and viability RT-qPCR assays for evaluation of enterovirus, hepatitis A virus and norovirus inactivation: Implications for public health risk assessment". Journal of Applied Microbiology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jam.13568. 10.1111/jam.13568 Monteiro, Silvia. "Nanofluidic digital PCR for the quantification of Norovirus for water quality assessment". PLOS ONE (2017): 10.1371/journal.pone.0179985 Monteiro, Silvia. "Brief History of Natural Mineral Water Characterization by Laboratório de Análises of Instituto Superior Técnico - Portugal". Procedia Earth and Planetary Science (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2017.01.035. 10.1016/j.proeps.2017.01.035 Monteiro, Silvia. "Evaluation of Enterococcus-infecting phages as indices of fecal pollution". Journal of Water and Health (2013): http://jwh.iwaponline.com/content/11/1/51. 10.2166/wh.2012.100 Monteiro, Silvia. "Norovirus, hepatitis A virus and enterovirus presence in shellfish from high quality harvesting areas in Portugal". Food Microbiology (2011): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740002011000189?via%3Dihub. 10.1016/j.fm.2011.01.005 Monteiro, Silvia. "Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis-infecting phages (enterophages) as markers of human fecal pollution in recreational waters". Water Research (2010): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135410005610. 10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.078

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/02	Tracing the Circulation of Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses using wastewater-based surveillance in a non-endemic country	NSF RCN Webinar NSF Research Coordination Network
2023/11	Wastewater-based surveillance for tracing the circulation of dengue and chikungunya viruses	Town Hall X: Wastewater Witchers and Watchers European Commission
2023/06	Bacteriophages as vehicles for the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes	Watermicro23, 21st symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Darwin, Australia)
2022/11	Bactericide Effect of Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Ion-Exchanged Zeolites on Composite Cellulose Acetate Nanofiltration Membranes	Euromembranes 2022 (Sorrento, Nápoles, Italy)
2022/10	Small water systems: the forgotten relative	The Disinfection Forum Water Research Centre
2022/09	Microbiology contamination in grass irrigated with different water sources	IWA World Congress and Exhibition International Water Association (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2022/05	Enteric viruses in beach sand: risks to public health	7th Food and Environmental Virology Conference International Society for Food and Environmental Virology (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2022/04	A wastewater-based epidemiology tool for COVID-19 surveillance in Portugal	Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022 (Singapura, Singapore)
2022/04	Reuse of municipal reclaimed water and treated greywater: implications for crop irrigation and human health	Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022 (Singapura, Singapore)
2021/10	Qualidade microbiológica de relvados irrigados com diferentes origens de água / Microbiological quality of grass irrigated with different water sources	19º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (ENaSB) and 12ª Jornadas Técnicas Internacionais de Resíduos (JTIR) (Viseu, Portugal)
2021/10	Modelling COVID-19 positivity rate as function of wastewater viral load	xxv congresso da sociedade portuguesa de estatística—SPE 2021 Sociedade Portuguesa De Estatística (Évora, Portugal)
2021/09	Nanocomposite membranes of cellulose acetate/silver nanoparticles and cellulose acetate/silver ion exchanged zeolites for biofouling control	13th European Congress of Chemical Engineering and 6th European Congress of Applied Biotechnology
2021/09	Engineering to the Limit” – “Engineering for all: the pandemic situation and the post-pandemic challenges	Engineering to the Limit” – “Engineering for all: the pandemic situation and the post-pandemic challenges Associação de Estudantes do Instituto Superior Técnico
2021/05	Water Microbiology: New perspectives	DEB Seminars Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
2020/11	Synthesis and Characterization of Bactericide Activity of Cellulose Acetate Asymmetric NF Composite Membranes with Silver Nanoparticles and Silver Ion Exchanged Zeolite	2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting
2020/07	COVIDetect – Detection, Quantification and modeling of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Portugal – a tool for an early-warning for the dissemination of the virus in the community	2nd Town Hall: SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance employing Sewers – EU Umbrella Study at UN World Water Quality Alliance European Commission
2019/09	A microfluidic platform for rapid detection of antibiotic resistant bacteria at the “point-of-need	Meeting Point Functional Layers 1st Symposium (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/09	Limits of survival of Mycobacterium species in Water distribution systems	20th Health Related Water Microbiolog Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Viena, Austria)
2019/06	New perspectives in water Microbiology: case-studies	Instituto Politécnico do Barreiro (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10	New Perspectives in Water Microbiology	Special Seminar - Environmental Engineering Stanford University (Palo Alto, California, United States)
2018/10	Health risks associated with playgrounds: decay of human enteroviruses in natural sand and fine grave	6th International Food and Environmental Virology Conference International Society for Food and Environmental Virology (Tempe, Arizona, United States)
2018/05	When Microbiology and Chemistry Meet	DEQTalk Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/04	Avaliação do Legiolert™ na deteção e quantificação de Legionella pneumophila em amostras de água	III Reunião sobre analises Microbiologicas de águas Iberlab (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/05	Microbiological Quality in Small Water Supplies: Are the Traditional Indicators Enough?	19th Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States)
2017/04	Tough guys: Resilience in the microbial world	Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona, United States)
2017/03	Fungal Diversity in Thermal Water. A Prospective Study	Minwat 2017 (Luso, Portugal)
2017	“Microbiological quality in small water supplies: are the traditional indicators enough?	(Nantes, France)
2017	Microbiological quality in small water supplies: are the traditional indicators enough?	(Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/09	Viruses in beach sand	5th Food and Environmental Virology International Society for Food and Environmental Virology (Kusatsu, Japan)
2016/09	Real-time PCR versus digital PCR in diagnostics of food-borne parasites	Analytical Methods on Foodborne Parasites: analysis of food matrices and diagnostics in human medical and veterinary samples (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2015/12	Microbial Source Tracking – o CSI da Microbiologia	Directiva dos Nitratos Direcção Geral da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural - DSPAA / Divisão de Gestão dos Recursos Naturais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09	Giardia and Cryptosporidium in surface and treated water of Denali national park	18th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09	Hepatitis E viruses: temporal and geographical distribution in Europe	18th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09	Pretreatments for estimation of viable viruses through reverse transcription-qpcr in shellfish: pros and cons	18th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/09	Selection of workable combinations of microbial source tracking markers to distinguish faecal pollution from more than two origins: an ongoing EU project	18th International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/04	Emergent Microorganisms and New Technologies	Jornada da Água Type Solution (Lisboa, Portugal)
2015/04	Pretreatments for Estimation of Viable Viruses through Reverse Transcription-qPCR in Shellfish: Pros and Cons	2015 European Symposium on Food Safety International Association for Food Protection (Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom)
2015	An assessment of the suitability of MST methods to determine human and non-human faecal inputs into the river Tejo, Portugal	New approaches to monitoring waterborne disease transmission in Brazil and the UK CETESB (São Paulo, Brazil)
2014/09	An assessment of the suitability of MST methods to determine human and non-human faecal inputs into the river Tejo, Portugal	Temph 2014 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/09	Fungal diversity in Indoor swimming pools	Temph 2014 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/06	Digital PCR: The path from sensitivity	4th Food and Environmental Virology Congress International Society for Food and Environmental Virology (Corfu, Greece)
2013/09	An assessment of the Suitability of MST Methods to Determine Human and Non-Human Faecal Inputs into the Tagus River, Portugal	17th Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Florianópolis)
2013	Combined Sewer Overflow: A Silent Pollutant	Global Leadership Initiative Special Workshop on Water Virology University of Tokyo (Tokyo, United States)
2012/10	Caracterização de qualidade de escorrências Pluviais da Cidade de Lisboa – Origem da Poluição Microbiológica	15º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (Évora, Portugal)
2011/09	Nontuberculous Mycobacteria: A Menace in Drinking Water Systems?	16th Health Related Water Microbiology Symposium Health Related Water Microbiology Group, IWA (Rotorua, New Zealand)
2011/03	Mycobacterium species in Swimming Pools: An emerging pathogen	4th Swimming pool and spa conference (Porto, Portugal)
2009/09	Ecology and prevalence of a novel group of viruses infecting Enterococcus faecalis	2009 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) (Phoenix, Arizona, United States)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - 2024	Antibiotic resistance genes in environmental waters Supervisor	Microbiologia (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023 - 2023	Antibiotic resistance in the environment Supervisor	Bioquímica (Degree) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2020 - 2023	Microbial and SARS-CoV-2 Contamination levels in wastewater and risk to Ria Formosa Co-supervisor	Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Degradação ambiental: resistência antimicrobiana e pesquisa da origem da poluição Supervisor	Engenharia Ambiental (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Pesquisa de bacteriófagos portadores de vetores de resistência a antibióticos em águas residuais Supervisor	Bioquímica (Degree) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2020 - 2022	Performance of drying beds for the treatment of sludge Co-supervisor	Environmental Engineering (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2019 - 2022	Fight against parasites in veterinary medicine with active principles of plants Co-supervisor	Regulation and Evaluation of Medicines and Health Products (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal
2019 - 2021	Potential bactericidal effect of fluorite nanoparticles and composite hybrid membranes of celulose acetate/fluorite nanoparticles in relevant Gram positive and Gram negative bactéria: applications in industry Supervisor	Microbiologia Aplicada (Master) Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Detection of enteric viruses in beach sand from Portugal Supervisor	Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
2018 - 2019	Agricultural reuse of municipal reclaimed water: implications for crop irrigation and human health Supervisor	Ciências de Engenharia - Engenharia Biológica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Survival of DNA of Legionella spp. to different water treatments Supervisor	CTESP (Other) Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Survival of enteric viruses in sand from recreational parks Supervisor
2016 - 2016	Enterococci antimicrobial resistance in wastewater Co-supervisor
2014 - 2015	Identification of sources of fecal contamination in River Tagus Supervisor	Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2022	Inactivation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria present in water using light emitting diodes and a photocatalytic membrane reactor (Thesis) Main arguer	Lisandra Sofia Seixas Lopes (Master) Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021	Human Poliomavirus in wastewater and environmental samples in the Greater Lisbon area (Thesis) Main arguer	Ana Carolina Condez (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2019	Optimizing an insect cell-based manufacturing platform for AAV vectors by modulation of cell physiology (Thesis) Main arguer	Anastasiya Kryzhansk (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2011	Novel Surrogates for viral load: bacteriophage infecting E. faecalis. Presence and survival in different matrices (Thesis) Main arguer	Dorota Cimochowska (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022 - 2022	Singapore Water Week Water Convention 2022	Singapore
2020 - 2020	Food and Environmental Virology Conference, 2020	Santiago de Compostela, Espanha
2020 - 2020	IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition
2018 - 2018	Food and Environmental Virology	Arizona, US
2018 - 2018	World Water Congress
2017 - 2017	Minwat 2017
2016 - 2016	Food and Environmental Virology Conference 2016	Kasutsu, Japan
2016 - 2016	World Water Congress & Exhibition 2016	Australia
2015 - 2015	Health-related Water Microbiology, 2015	Lisbon, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020 - 2020	Pathogens in water: a question of public health” and “COVID-19 and wastewater: an early-warning system for the circulation of the virus in the population	Universidade Senior (Outros)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Senior University with the themes: Water Quality: from a microbiological perspective and Pathogens in water: a question of public health	Universidade Senior (Outros)	Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2015 - 2015	Sampling and concentration techniques for surface water		Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia
2014 - 2014	Emerging pathogens in water	FLUVIO (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023 - Current	Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology	Nature Journals
2023 - Current	Journal of Water and Health	International Water Association
2023 - Current	Natural Resources Forum, a United Nations Sustainable Journal	Wiley Online Library
2023 - Current	Environmental Pollution	Elsevier
2022 - Current	Applied and Environmental Microbiology	American Society for Microbiology
2021 - Current	Antibiotics	mdpi
2021 - Current	Sustainability	mdpi
2021 - Current	FEMS Microbiology Letter	FEMS
2020 - Current	Water	mdpi
2020 - Current	Pathogens	mdpi
2020 - Current	Diagnostics	mdpi
2020 - Current	Science of the Total Environment	Elsevier
2020 - Current	Microorganisms	mdpi
2018 - Current	PlosOne
2018 - Current	International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health	Elsevier
2017 - Current	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy	American Society for Microbiology
2017 - Current	Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology’	Wiley Online Library
2016 - Current	Frontiers in Microbiology	Frontiers
2016 - Current	Water Science and Technology’	International Water Association
2015 - Current	Water Research	Elsevier
2015 - Current	Journal of Applied Microbiology	Oxford Academic
2014 - Current	Virology Journal
2014 - Current	Food and Environmental Virology	Springer
2014 - Current	Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies	Elesevier
2013 - Current	Letters in Applied Microbiology	Oxford Academic

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022	PhD Thesis monitoring Committee (Comissão de Acompanhamento da Tese) - Pedro Condelipes and Catarina Caneira	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2022	Prémios Verdes
2006	Diploma de Mérito Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal