B. Lopes graduated in Marine Biology and concluded her PhD in Environmental Sciences and Technology: Aquatic Environment. Her research focused on environmental contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons and exposure/effect biomarkers, used on environmental monitoring and risk assessment as an early warning of impairment. Later B.Lopes concluded her Post-Doctoral research in the assessment of environmental contaminants in a human cohort from South Portugal in relation to health effects and health risk evaluation. She developed her research on mother/child environmental exposure to organochlorine pesticides (OPs), PCBs, bisphenol A, and endocrine disrupter (ED) xenoestrogens, as well as a human biomarker for estrogenic/antiestrogenic effects.
 
Endocrine disrupters; Biomarkers; Human health; Environmental Contamination; organochlorine compounds

 

TP1: Management and Maintenance of Common-Use Equipment for the Environmental Systems and Resources Line. Responsible for managing schedules for the analytical equipment and its maintenance.

TP2: Execution of Analytical Work. Responsible for the execution and operation of common-use equipment, the establishment/development of methodologies and experimental protocols. Plans and implements experimental procedures/advanced laboratory techniques based on current norms and standards.

TP3: Waste Management. Responsible for managing the waste from the laboratories of the Environmental Systems and Resources Research Line at CIMA. This task is coordinated with the researchers in charge from different laboratories and the Technical Assistant of the Oceanic and Coastal Dynamics Line.

TP4: Inventory Management and Consumables purchase necessary for the operation of common-use equipment and laboratory practices across different research groups in the Environmental Systems and Resources Line.

TP5: Data Management and Organization. Responsible for collecting and managing data resulting from the use of common equipment, as well as their storage and backups.

TP6: Participation in Sampling and Data Collection. Participates and collaborates in fieldwork with various teams in the Environmental Systems and Resources Line at CIMA.

TP7: Integration and coordination of tasks with the Technical Assistant of the Oceanic and Coastal Dynamics Line at CIMA.