Francisca Aguiar

Francisca Constança Frutuoso de Aguiar. Completed the Ph.D. in Forestry Engineering (2005), MSc in Integrated Pest Management (1996), and Pre-Bolonha graduation in Agronomic Engineering (1992) by Universidade de Lisboa-Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ULisboa-ISA). Is an Assistant Professor at ULisboa-ISA of Botany, Vegetation, Ecology, Weed Science and a Researcher at the Forest Research Centre (CEF) and LAboratory Associated TERRA on riparian and aquatic ecology. Published 58 articles in WoS journals (more than 80% in Q1 journals), has a h=29 (SCOPUS) and h=32 (Google citations). Has 6 magazine articles, 16 section(s) of books and 4 manuals/book(s). Supervised 4 Ph.D. theses (2 in course), 16 MSc dissertations/ 5 in course. She was a member of Ph.D. juries for 13 Ph.D. thesis, of which she acted as a rapporteur/external arguer of 11 (international thesis), and of 12 MSc. thesis. Has received 2 awards and/or honors. Has reviewed approx. 220 papers (validated by WoS) and she was editor of more than 150 papers, handled 6 Special Issues on the topics of conservation and ecology of forests and freshwaters. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Aquatic Botany (Elsevier) and acts as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers). She participated as invited speaker and moderator of around 40 events (Seminars, Webinars and Conferences), and has more than 50 oral and poster communications as the first author. She was the principal investigator of FCT projects, national protocols with the Portuguese Environmental Agency, and participated in research teams of numerous projects.