Prof. Dr. Ana Catarina Sousa

Ana C. A. Sousa graduated in Biology from the University of Aveiro in 2001 and completed her Ph.D. in Biology in September 2009 from the same institution. During her M.Sc. and Ph.D., she worked at several foreign institutions including the University of Coruña, Spain, the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan and the Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Japan. Her first postdoc was developed between Portugal (University of Aveiro and University of Beira Interior) and Japan (CMES, Ehime University) and focused on exposure assessment of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals. Her second postdoc was developed at CICECO, University of Aveiro, and focused on the toxicological characterization of new ionic liquids-based extraction and purification platforms. Between October 2017 and September 2018, she was a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—CNRS, France. Upon finishing her contract with CNRS, she moved to Japan as a lecturer of Environmental Toxicology at Hokkaido University. Between January 2019 and March 2021, she was a researcher at CICECO, Aveiro University. In April 2021, she moved to Évora University, Portugal, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. Since November 2022, she has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Évora.