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Célia Aveleira got her BSc degree in Biology in 2002 at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2003, she received a FCT Research Fellowship to work at Retinal Dysfunction Group, Centre of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, IBILI, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, in a project entitled “Mechanisms of cell degeneration in diabetic retinopathy”. In 2005, she got a FCT PhD Fellowship to develop her PhD research in the same group. She spent 2 years at the Penn State Hershey Retina Research Group, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, to develop complementary studies for her PhD. Célia got her PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, in 2010. After that, Célia Aveleira became a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. Her research was focused on the role of caloric restriction mimetics as therapeutics targets to delay the aging process of normal and premature aging diseases, such as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS). In 2011, Célia Aveleira was granted with a FCT Post-Doctoral fellowship to study the potential role of neuropeptide Y (NPY) as a mimetic of caloric restriction to reduce aging and ameliorate age-related diseases. In 2013 she got a position at CNC, as an Invited Scientist under the project “Aging, Stress and Chronic Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapeutics”, supported by QREN - Mais Centro: Programa Operacional Regional do Centro. In line with her research, Celia was awarded in April 2015 with an Innovator Research Grant as Principal Investigator from Progeria Research Foundation (USA) to study the therapeutic potential of ghrelin to rescue HGPS premature aging phenotype. In January 2017 Célia was enrolled in the FCT Investigator Programme and started her appointment as Assistant Investigator (equivalent to Assistant Professor with no teaching load) at CNC. For the past years, Celia has been working within the Aging and Neuroscience fields, particularly focused on aging mechanisms and how the hypothalamus regulates whole-body aging as well as on the potential of neuroendocrine peptides to delay the aging process of normal and age-related diseases. In April 2022 Celia joined Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing (MIA-Portugal), University of Coimbra, as an Assistant investigator. Her research has been focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases. The ultimate goal is to develop novel therapeutic strategies to delay/ameliorate age-related diseases and improve quality of life.
Célia A. Aveleira is the author/co-author of 25 scientific articles (7 as 1st and 3 as senior author; 19 published in Q1 journals, 2275 citations, and h-factor 16 (Scopus). She is also co-author of 2 book chapters. As an important component of the dissemination of her research outputs, she participated in several national and international meetings being an author/coauthor of 138 presentations: 60 oral communications (22 as 1st author and 11 as senior author) and 82 poster presentations (29 as 1st author and 13 as senior author). She has participated in 18 research projects (2 as PI and 1 as Co-PI) and has been responsible for student training and supervision: 5 MSc and 4 BSc students as principal supervisor, 4 PhD (ongoing) and 4 MSc students as co-supervisor, and collaborated in the supervision of 2 PhD, 2 MSc, and 7 undergraduate students. Célia A. Aveleira was granted 13 awards/grants. She has participated as a lecturer in several MSc and PhD programs of the University of Coimbra and other Portuguese Universities and in several academic examining committees of MSc and PhD Thesis. She is a Review Editor of Frontiers in Aging and peer-reviewed in several international journals. In addition to her scientific activity, Célia has also participated in several science communication activities, particularly, in Brain Awareness Week, European Researchers Night, and Ciência Viva summer program, as well as other activities related to science dissemination to high school students and teachers.
In 2020 Celia become a mother of twins and had a career break due to high-risk pregnancy leave and maternity leave which impacted her scientific productivity.
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UIDB/04539/2020
PTDC/MEC-MCI/29002/2017
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030167
IF/00825/2015
CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000012
PTDC/BBB-NAN/0932/2014
SFRH/BPD/111710/2015
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007440
CENTRO-07-ST24-FEDER-002006
PEst-C/SAU/LA0001/2013e2014
SFRH/BPD/73942/2010
PEst-C/SAU/LA0001/2011
PTDC/SAU-FCF/099082/2008
PTDC/SAU-NEU/71228/2006
PTDC/SAU-NEU/73119/2006
SFRH/BD/18727/2004
GAI 10/05
POCTI/CBO/38545/2001
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