Dr. Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa (Ph.D. in Oceanography, 2002) is an Associate Researcher at the São Paulo State University – UNESP (Brazil), with research interests in aquatic pollution, marine ecotoxicity, legacy contaminants, contaminants of emerging concern, environmental risk assessment, coastal conservation, and coastal management. He is currently supported by a research grant awarded from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and has coordinated or participated as PI in many research projects and networks along his career. He is (co)author of more than 200 papers (h=37 at Scopus), three books, and 18 book chapters, and has supervised numerous Post-Doctoral researchers and Ph.D., MSc, or BSc students, in the last 20 years.