Curriculum Vitae
Farhat-Un-Nisa Bajwa
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Farhat-Un-Nisa Bajwa
Citation names
- Bajwa, Farhat-Un-Nisá
- Bajwa, F. N.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- AC1F-4117-4E52
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2957-0245
Addresses
- University of Algarve. Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA) Universidade do Algarve - FCT | Edifício 7 - Piso 1, 8005-139, Faro, Faro, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
- Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| French | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2022/09/19 - 2024/12
Ongoing
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Marine and Coastal Systems (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Pharmaceutical pollution in a changing climate:
The influence of temperature and salinity on the toxicity and bioaccessibility of carbamazepine in Mytilus galloprovincialis
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2019/09/19 - 2022/08/30
Concluded
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Marine Biology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Net ecosystem metabolism and nutrient variability in an area on the western edge of Ria Formosa, south coast of Portugal
under Spring
conditions" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09 - Current | Research Fellow | Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2024/03 - 2024/09 | Traineeship in Ocean Literacy and Blue Education | ACTeon, France |
| 2023/09 - 2023/11 | Internship in Genotoxicity (Comet Assay) | Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2023/10 - 2023/10 | Master Thesis Internship in Biochemical analysis | Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal |
| 2023/04 - 2023/09 | Internship in In Vitro Techniques and Human Health Risk | Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
| 2022/12 - 2023/08 | Ocean Science Monitor | Centro Ciência Viva do Algarve, Portugal |
| 2022/02 - 2023/05 | Internship in Chemical Oceanography | Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/01 - 2025/03/31 | Conservação e restauração de ecossistemas do mar profundo no contexto da mineração
DivRestore/0009/2020 DEEP REST
Research Fellow
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2022/09 - 2022/09 | Statistical activities in the assessment of water quality
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estatística e Aplicações, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2022/02/01 - 2022/08/01 | Application of statistical methods in the assessment of coastal water quality
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estatística e Aplicações, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2021/04 - 2021/07 | Economic activities in protected areas and sustainable ecotourism
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference paper |
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Artistic / Performance
| Artistic performance |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/05/28 | Pharmaceutical pollution under a changing climate: Unravelling the ecotoxicological effects of carbamazepine in marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis. | 22nd Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO) International Symposium
PRIMO22 (Nantes, France)
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| 2024/04/10 | "Marine pollution by contaminants of emerging concern and seafood consumption: The Anthropocene dilemma “to eat, or not to eat?" as part of Session 1 "Science and Solutions for a Clean, Healthy and Resilient Ocean" | United Nations Ocean Decade Conference
United Nations and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2024/01 | Oral intervention representing the importance of young people in the Ocean Decade as a Young Ocean Advocate for the EU Youth4Ocean Forum. The event also featured interventions by the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO), Vladimir Ryabinin, and members of the Government, namely the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Economy and Sea, and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education. The session was held under the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic. | Public presentation session of the National Committee for the Ocean Decade
Comissão Oceanográfica Intergovernamental (COI/UNESCO) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/07 | Guest speaker presenting the Youth4Ocean Forum, youth opportunities, EU4Ocean Coalition and pitched about the importance of ocean literacy in her scientific work being developed at CIMA/UAlg as part of her master thesis. | Summer School on Ocean Literacy and Collaboration
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - UNESCO (Matosinhos, Portugal)
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| 2023/06 | Storytelling pitch on her project "One Ocean, One Plan" as a Young Ocean Advocate of the Youth4Ocean Forum supported by the European Ocean Coalition and DG MARE. | World Ocean Day
European Commission (Brussels, Belgium)
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| 2022/02/25 | Seminar for undergraduate students of Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management to promote youth engagement in ocean-related projects and share her work developed during her scholarship at CEAUL/UL at Prof. Clara Cordeiro's class in the University of Algarve. | Scientific Initiation
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
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| 2021/07 | Participated in the 3-weeks program "Sê Investigador por 3 Semanas" on the project of CEAUL "how much water is lost through leaks?" using real data of the water flow and pressure from the City Council of Loulé. Our main goal was to detect the normal consumption patterns and pipe leak in the water supply system of a village in Loulé - Vila de Salir. We had the opportunity to work with Prof. Clara Cordeiro, a researcher from the University of Algarve and Dra. Regina Casimiro, an engineer from City Council of Loulé. | Sê Investigador por Três Semanas
Centro de Estatística e Aplicações da universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09 | Blue education in action: join and enjoy the conversation is one of the Satellite Events of the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference.
It aimed to bring together pupils, students, teachers, scientists and local authorities to share their experiences and co-develop
future blue education concepts and initiatives. Co-organised by: ACTeon, the All-Atlantic Blue Schools; the BlueMinds4Teachers
project; the Mission Ocean BlueLightS project; Ciência Viva; EMEPC; EMSEA; Eurocean Youth/Surfrider Foundation; the EU4ocean
coalition; ICM-CSIC; Nausicaá; OFB; YEE. (2024/04/09 - 2024/04/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/04/25 - 2024/04/26 | Science is Wonderful! is an initiative of European Union’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). I participated and co-organised
(on behalf of ACTeon environment), the EU4Ocean coalition of the European Commission's DG MARE booth, on ocean literacy, entitled
"Let's protect our ocean", showcasing the project and hands-on activities with parterns: EMSEA, EMODnet, YEE and JPI Oceans
Other
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Science is Wonderful!
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
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| 2024/03/08 - 2024/03/08 | Panelist in the discussion session "ocean literacy as a pre-condition for a sustainable blue economy" in the "Ocean Literacy
in Action" event hosted by DG MARE, EU4Ocean Coalition and supported by IOC-UNESCO. The aim of the session was discussing
new ways to engage youth in the blue economy sector, understand which conditions are pivotal for the sustainable development
of the blue economy considering different perspectives from the academia and industry.
Conference
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European Ocean Days
European Commission, Belgium
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| 2023/09/12 - 2023/09/15 | Participant in the conferece focused on "fish welfare". Hosted dialogues between stakeholders, evaluated findings, and developed
solutions for the welfare of fishes. An unique exchange among experts with different backgrounds and interests: scientists,
consumers, representatives of NGOs, retail, policy, certification, and industry.
Conference
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5th Summer Shoal on Fish Welfare (fair-fish)
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Portugal
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| 2023/07 - 2023/07 | Attendee at the Summer School hosted by the EU4Ocean Coalition within the EC and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
- UNESCO. She was part of the EATFIXE team that was selected by the jury to further work with IOC-UNESCO and the Matosinhos
Municipality.
Other
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Summer School on Ocean Literacy and Collaboration
UNESCO Italia, Italy
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| 2022/05/25 - 2022/05/25 | "A statistical boost to assess water quality" as an invited talk in Statistical Approaches Towards Sustainability session
organised by M. Rosário Ramos. Abstract available at: http://icra9.unipg.it/program/scientific-program/
Conference
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ICRA9 (9th International Conference on Risk Analysis)
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
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| 2022/01 - 2022/03 | Participant at the Night of Ideas hosted by the Institut Français in Paris. Farhat was one of the two participants representing
Portugal and her team’s project was selected by the DG MARE to be further developed.
Other
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European Night of Ideas
Institut Français, France
Centro de Informação Europeia Jacques Delors, Portugal |
| 2021/10 - 2021/10 | Participant at a 2-day Youth Innovation Event hosted by European Commission’s DG MARE, in which the participants developed
solutions to several important and urgent challenges. Her team won on the challenge "protecting and restoring the coastal
ecosystems" with our project "Erasmus for the Sea".
Other
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Hack4Oceans
European Commission, Belgium
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2022/09 - Current | As a European Young Ocean Advocate, Farhat joined the Forum with a project to promote ocean literacy entitled “Heartstrings to the Sea”, and “One Ocean, One Plan” with a partner from Cyprus. Since she has joined Y4O Forum, she has been taking part in several initiatives as speaker or participant. | Active member |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/10 - Current | Youth contributor for the Portuguese delegation as a youth to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable
Development 2021-30
Other
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United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, France |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2023/07/13 | Dos 280 alunos de mestrado e doutoramento candidatos à "Summer School" da Comissão Oceanográfica da Unesco, só 20 tiveram lugar. Esta é a segunda edição do programa e a primeira vez que decorre em Portugal. Os participantes são de 13 países diferentes. Estão todos em Matosinhos e o que os liga é o Oceano Atlântico. | Jornal de Notícias |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2024 | Erasmus+ Traineeship Grant
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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