Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae
Personal data
Name: Paulo Jorge Machado Teixeira de Morais
Address: Rua Costa Fontes, 75. 4460-289 Senhora da Hora
Phone: 229512370 / Mobile: 916755776
E-mail: [email protected]
National ID number: 12739051
Date of birth: 4/9/1986
Nationality: Portuguese
Academic degrees
Degree in Biology (pre-Bologna). Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (2004-2008).
Traineeship: Biology of Metazoans - Tardigrades (2008). Final classification: 15.
Master in Biology. Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (2008-2009).
Title: Tardigrades from Portugal and Morphometrics Analysis for Discrimination of cryptic
species of the Pseudechiniscus suillus complex. Final classification: 18.
PhD in Environmental Science and Technology (2009- ). Faculty of Sciences, University of
Porto & CIIMAR. Title: Fate and effects of chlorophenols to phytoplankton species from
Portuguese freshwaters.
Scientific activity
Fontoura, P., Pilato, G., Lisi, O. & Morais, P. (2009) Tardigrades from Portugal: four new
records and description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2030, 21-38.
Fontoura, P., Pilato, G., Morais, P. & Lisi, O. (2009) Minibiotus xavieri, a new species of
tardigrade from the Parque Biológico de Gaia, Portugal (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae). Zootaxa,
2267, 55-64.
Fontoura, P. & Morais, P. (2011) Assessment of traditional and geometric morphometrics for
discriminating cryptic species of the Pseudechiniscus suillus complex (Tardigrada:
Echiniscidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 49, 26-33.
Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T., Basto, M. C. P., Carvalho, P. N., Vasconcelos, M. T. (2010) A
headspace SPME-GC-ECD method suitable for determination of chlorophenols in water
samples. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 399, 2531-2538.
Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T., Basto, M. C. P., Vasconcelos, M. T. (2012) Extraction and
preconcentration techniques for chromatographic determination of chlorophenols in
environmental and food samples. Talanta, 89, 1-11.
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Scientific communications: posters
IJUP 09 – Meeting of Young Researchers of University of Porto. Porto, February 25th to 27th,
2009. Poster: “Water bears (Tardigrada) of the Parque Biológico de Gaia”. Morais, P. &
Fontoura, P.
Morais, P. & Fontoura, P. (2009) Water bears (Tardigrada) of the Parque Biológico de Gaia.
IJUP 09, 2nd Meeting of Young Researchers at UP, Abstract booklet, 1-379 (317).
ExTech 2010 - 12th International Symposium on Advances in Extraction Technologies. Poznan,
Poland, September 20th to 22th, 2010. Poster: “Optimization of headspace SPME-GC-ECD
method for determination of chlorophenols in water samples”. Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T.,
Basto, M. C. P., Carvalho, P. N., Vasconcelos, M. T.
Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T., Basto, M. C. P., Vasconcelos, M. T. (2010) Optimization of solidphase microextraction coupled to gas chromatography (SPME-GC-ECD) for determination of
chlorophenols in water samples. ExTech 2010, Poznan, Poland, Abstract booklet, 107-108.
7th European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Environment
/ 13th Symposium on Chemistry and Fate of Modern Pesticides. Porto, Portugal, October 7th to
10th, 2012. Poster: “Toxicity of pentachlorophenol to the cyanobacterium Microcystis
aeruginosa”. Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T., Basto, M. C. P., Ramos, V., Vasconcelos, V. M.,
Vasconcelos, M. T. S. D.
7th European Conference on Pesticides and Related Organic Micropollutants in the Environment
/ 13th Symposium on Chemistry and Fate of Modern Pesticides. Porto, Portugal, October 7th to
10th, 2012. Poster: “Sample storage and analysis procedure for determination of chlorophenols in
water”. Morais, P. de, Stoichev, T., Basto, M. C. P., Carvalho, P. N., Vasconcelos, M. T. S. D.
(presented by T. Stoichev)
Other scientific formations
ExTech 2010 workshop – SPME: “Solid Phase Microextraction: fundamentals, method
development and applications”. Poznan, Poland, September 19th, 2010. Poznan University of
Life Sciences, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition.
Workshop SPME 2010 “Fundamentos, Estratégias para o Desenvolvimento de Metodologias e
Aplicações”. Aveiro, Portugal, November 29th, 2010. University of Aveiro.
7th RECETOX Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology. Brno,
República Checa, June 27th to July 2nd, 2011. RECETOX centre, Faculty of Science, Masaryk
University.
Workshop “Poluentes Emergentes no Meio Aquático: análise, níveis de contaminação e
preocupações ambientais”. Porto, Portugal, February 10th, 2012. IAREN – Instituto da Água da
Região Norte.
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