Joana REIS ALMEIDA

Assistant Researcher, CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto. Matosinhos, Portugal.

Marine Biologist, PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2012, ICBAS-UPorto), Assistant Researcher at CIIMAR and Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, UPorto. She acts in the areas of Environmental Sciences, Marine Biology and Blue Biotechnology, with focus in marine biofouling ecology and the search for eco-efficient antifouling strategies based on new alternative environmentally compatible products. She has been leading research projects on the bioprospection of antifouling compounds from natural resources to the development of new bio-inspired antifouling coatings (e.g. NASCEM (FCT-PT)) and investigation of biotechnological applications of natural products. Her research is published in international journals and intellectual property of results protected in 4 patents on bioactivity of new promising compounds to be applied on novel eco-friendly antifouling paints.