Filipe Martinho

Filipe Martinho obtained his PhD in Biology (Specialization in Ecology) in 2009 at the University of Coimbra. He is an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE), Department of Life Sciences – University of Coimbra, co-PI of the Marine and Coastal Ecosystems research line of the CFE, member of the CFE Executive Council and of the Scientific Council of the Department of Life Sciences. His core research focuses on the effects of climate change and anthropogenic pressures on marine and estuarine organisms (fish, plankton), on the use of estuaries as nursery areas by marine fish, and on the use of otoliths as timekeepers to study fish migrations, habitat use patterns, stock structure and growth. He published 66 SCI papers and 4 book chapters (Scopus h-index 25; 1701 citations / Google Scholar h-index 30; 2561 citations). He has reviewed papers for 29 journals, including prestigious ones like Global Change Biology, Scientific Reports and Journal of Applied Ecology, and is Associate Editor in Marine Biology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Editor in Fishes, and Section Editor at the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has participated in 3 projects with national/international funding as Principal Investigator, and as team member of 14 other projects with both national, EEA Grants and LIFE funding (global funding >8M Eur). He has 55 oral presentations and more than 20 posters presented at 29 scientific conferences, to which he has also contributed as part of the organising committee and as session chair. He has taught undergraduate and graduate students on the topics of marine ecology and fisheries in several Portuguese universities. Filipe Martinho currently supervises 5 PhD students, and has been involved in the supervision of 2 Postdocs, 10 MSc students and 6 research grants and internships. Filipe Martinho participated in several science dissemination activities, such as lectures, hands-on activities, photo exhibitions (also as photographer), review of science diffusion books and production of social media content. He was on the board of the Iberian Society for Ichthyology between 2014 and 2018, and is a member of the COST Action Sea-Unicorn, EMBRC, and of the ICES Working Group on the Value of Coastal Habitats for Exploited Species (WGHVES).