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Environmental rehabilitation, Biogeochemistry, Technosols, Phytostabilisation/Phytoremediation, Soil-plant system, Contaminated/degraded areas, Microbioma do solo
Portugal

Biography

Erika Santos is Assistant Professor in Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Agronomia (Portugal). With a background in Biology and Scientific Master in Nature Conservation and Management, she has a European PhD in Environmental Engineering (Universidade de Lisboa and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela from Spain) followed by post-doctoral grant on Agricultural and Food Biotechnology at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She has more than 15 years of academic experience as lecturer, in which she taught in several curricular units of Degree, Master and professional courses from Portugal, Spain, Perú and Bolivia, and developed other academic functions. She had completed the supervision of 14 MSc students and 25 BSc students and participated, as coordinator (PI) and researcher, in several R&D projects (co)-financed by European and Portuguese funds, and companies.
Nowadays, she has published 4 international chapters’ books, 42 articles in international indexes journals, 16 articles in national journals, 35 proceedings, and 2 technical books. She participated in several national/international technical and scientific congresses/seminars for presentations in the form of oral communication (by invitation: 15, speaker: 65) or poster (82) as well as Editor or Editorial Coordinator of 3 books (3) and committee organizer. She has an h-index of 20.
Her main interests and experience covers the physico-chemical and biological evaluation of soils, biogeochemistry, environmental recovery of degraded or contaminated areas with nature-based solutions (e.g. Technosols, phytostabilization with autochthones plants, biochar); soil-plant interaction; and valorisation of endogenous resources (e.g. plants used in the recovered systems by their natural value-added compounds).

Activities

Employment (6)

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2018-06-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Recursos Naturais, Ambiente e Território )
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade de Aveiro CICECO: Aveiro, Aveiro, PT

2017-08-01 to 2018-05-31 | Post-doctoral research fellow
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2016-03-21 to 2017-07-31 | Research fellow (Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Research Unit)
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2012-01-01 to 2016-01-01 | PhD fellow
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III: Loulé, PT

2004-01 to 2015-12-31 | Lecturer
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade do Algarve: Faro, Faro, PT

2007-08 to 2008-08 | Research fellow (Faculdade de Recursos Naturais )
Employment
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Education and qualifications (4)

Universidade de Aveiro CICECO: Aveiro, Aveiro, PT

2017-08-01 to 2018-05-31 | Pos-doc Agricultural and food biotechnology
Education
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia: Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

2010-02-07 to 2016-05-06 | PhD Environmental engineering
Education
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade do Algarve: Faro, PT

2003 to 2007 | Scientific Master in Management and Nature Conservation
Education
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Universidade de Aveiro: Aveiro, PT

1997 to 2003 | Degree in Biology
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Professional activities (5)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, IT

2022 to present | Scientific expert (International Network on Soil Pollution)
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

European Geosciences Union: Munich, DE

2022 to present | Committee member (Soil System Sciences, Division - SSS7: Soil Pollution and Reclamation )
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European Geosciences Union: Munich, DE

2020 to present | Sócio
Membership
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Sociedade Portuguesa da Ciência do Solo: Lisboa, PT

2009 to present | Sócio
Membership
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Erika S. Santos; E.S. Santos; E. Santos; Erika Santos

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, IT

2018 to 2022 | Scientific expert (WG2 Soil Pollution: From assessment to remediation)
Service
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Funding (30)

DEMONSTRATION AND MODELLING OF NBS TO ENHANCE THE RESILIENCE OF MEDITERRANEAN AGRO-SILVO-PASTORAL ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES (DRYAD)

2024 to 2028 | Contract
Horizon 2020 (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

10.3030/101156076

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Capture of nitrogen gases from slurry through filters made by inorganic wastes to crop fertilization

2022-04 to 2023-04 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/FILMAWAS

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

RESIFLOR - "P3.5 - Reincorporar resíduos industriais na floresta" da Agenda Transform - Agenda para a transformação digital das cadeias de valor florestais numa economia portuguesa mais resiliente e hipocarbónica

2022 to 2025 | Contract
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP (Porto, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

IAPMEI/PRR/Aviso 02/C05-i01/2022

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Appui au renforcement des capacités et opérationnalisation du Laboratoire National des Sols en Guinée-Bissau

2022 to 2024 | Contract
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome, IT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

TCP/GBS/3802

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Adaptation of crop systems to mine areas recovered with Technosols

2022 to 2023 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/CropinMine

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Laboratório para a Sustentabilidade do Uso da Terra e dos Serviços dos Ecossistemas

2021-01-01 to 2025-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LA/P/0092/2020

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Cultivate non-food products in degraded mine areas with designed Technosols

2021-01 to 2021-12 | Contract
N/A (N/A, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/Non-foodCropMine

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Recovery of AMF diversity in Portuguese vineyard soils threatened by climatic and edaphic challenges: AMF germplasm bank creation and specialized case-adapted inoculum production

2021-01 to 2021-12 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/Mycovitis G-Bank

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Unravelling the combined use of microbial and soil technologies to optimize edible halophyte cultivation in underused saline soil

2021-01 to 2021-12 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/MycoHaloph

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

P3.3. Novos processos e infraestruturas de valorização de resíduos industriais para produção de fertilizantes e aproveitamento de inertes da Agenda Transform para a transformação digital das cadeias de valor florestais numa economia portuguesa mais resiliente e hipocarbónica

2021 to 2025 | Contract
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP (Porto, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

P3.3 C644865735-00000007

GRANT_NUMBER:

ResiFlor C644865735-00000007

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Reducing the accumulation of As in rice by the use of microalgae in paddy fields

2021 to 2023 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

LEAF/RemovAs

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Serviços laboratoriais de análise de amostras de solo para caracterização de perfis

2020-07 to 2021 | Contract
Direccao-Geral de Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

166/2020/DGADR/2020

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Implementação de Plano de Monitorização de Qualidade dos Solos e Coberto Vegetal na Área Mineira São Domingos

2020-02 to 2022-02 | Contract
European Regional Development Fund (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

145/POSEUR/2020

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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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STEnCIL – Sustentável EfiCIente Lablab

2020-01 to 2021-06 | Contract
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PDR2020-101-031465

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Estudio niveles de referencia de elementos tóxicos en suelos del entorno de la quebrada las hierbas en la unidad de Cerro Corona

2019-12 to 2020-02 | Contract
Gold Fields La Cima S.A. (Lima, PE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

GLF2

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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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REMAS - gREenhouse gas Emissions risk MAnagement vS forest fires

2019-10 to 2022-10 | Contract
European Regional Development Fund (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

SOE3/P4/E0954

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

CICECO-Instituto de Materiais de Aveiro

2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

UID/CTM/50011/2019

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Research Center Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF)

2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

UID/AGR/04129/2019

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Elaboración del estudio de mejoramiento del wetland Pucará

2018 to 2018 | Contract
Compañía de Minas Buenaventura SAA (Lima, PE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

AMP_18-PPA-030.01

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Cultivation of Mediterranean plants in Technosols from mining areas and their exploration as sources of natural value-added compounds

2017-08 to 2018-05 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Formulación de cobertura de suelos con residuos mineros que permita la impermeabilidad, estabilidad física, biológica y geoquímica para ser usados en el cierre de componentes generadores de drenajes ácidos de mina en mina La Zanja, Pulán, Cajamarca

2017 to 2018 | Contract
Ministerio de la Producción (Lima, PE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PITEI-4-P-015-091-16

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Potencialidade de resíduos orgânicos/inorgânicos na recuperação de escombreiras de gossan e ricas em sufuretos, e desenvolvimento de Cistus ladanifer e Lavandula pedunculata para a produção de bioextractos vegetais

2012-12 to 2016-01 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER: SFRH/BD/80198/2011
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Strategic Project - UI 528 - 2011-2012

2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PEst-OE/AGR/UI0528/2011

GRANT_NUMBER:

PEst-C/EQB/UI0511/2011

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Cultivo sustentável de halófitas na Reserva Natural do Sapal de Castro Marim e Vila Real de Santo António

2011 to 2014 | Contract
Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Algarve (Faro, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

ALG-02-0931-FEDER-000022

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

PROFORBIOMED Promotion of residual forestry biomass in the Mediterranean basin

2011 to 2014 | Contract
European Regional Development Fund (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

1S-MED10-009

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Rede Temática para a Valorização dos Recursos Silvestres do Mediterrâneo

2010 to 2014 | Contract
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Food Agriculture and Fisheries Biotechnology (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

020311015070

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Recuperação ambiental de áreas mineiras em Portugal e Espanha

2010 to 2012 | Contract
N/A (N/A, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

E-87/10

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Caracterização da população de Gaivotas de Audouin do Sul de Portugal

2010 to 2011 | Contract
Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III (Loulé, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

....

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

ECOTEC – Ecotecnologias baseadas no uso de bactérias sulfato-redutoras e sua aplicação ao tratamento de águas ácidas de mina

2007-07 to 2008-08 | Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. (Lisbon, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER: POCI/AMB/58512/2004
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Projecto BD docentes

2007 to 2015 | Contract
Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III (Loulé, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

...

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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Science of the total environment. (1)