Ana Margarida Amaral (Portuguese, 42 years old, PhD 2009 in usc.es). CCMAR Liaison officer and core facility manager (CTS- Central de Tecnologias e Serviços), responsible for the infrastructure access as assemblemarine.org and aquaexcel2020.eu and liaising with industry in sharebiotech.net. Actually involved in transnational access in assembleplus.eu, Aquaexcel2020.eu, Embric.eu and EMBRC.PT (European Marine Biological Resource Centre), a distributed research infrastructure that aims to provide services to support both fundamental and applied research based on marine bio resources and marine ecosystems for users from academia, industry, technology and additional sectors.
Graduated as marine biologist and aquaculture in ualg.pt (1999), master/dea in marine bivalve ecophysiology and biochemistry (2004) and PhD in marine environment impacts and bivalve aquaculture (2009) in usc.es. Several research fellowships 1998-2002 with active participation in regional / international funded fisheries research projects at ualg.pt. Between 2002-2004 was consultant as Marine Biologist at Shellfish Organization (Formosa CRL) and Olhão Municipality behind the European project Equal - valorization of ria Formosa lagoon economic activities (Algarve, Portugal). In 2004, join the associate laboratory cimar.org with a technical research contract on marine biodiversity and conservation services. Involved in more than 16 European and regional projects.
Accumulated experience, qualifications and expertise as liaison officer, involved in laboratory licensing (as biohazard, radio hazard, animal experimentation), health and safety implementation, legal aspects and licenses related to the provision of marine organisms from wild and Nagoya protocol; scientific consultancy in marine sciences namely environmental assessment and impacts, aquaculture development, bivalve production, biology and nature-tourism linkage and solve industry very specific problems.
Combine skills and current interest in quality control management, science transfer and management, especially building bridges between the potential offered by science and the needs of society, industry and government.
