Antonina Dos Santos

Dr. Antonina dos Santos is a research scientist at the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) and leads the Plankton and crustacean Lab. Antonina has studied taxonomy and ecology of crustacean larvae in Portugal seas for over 20 years. Much of Antonina research has been the study of unexplored phase of living resources, focusing her studies on larval dispersal and recruitment to the origin population. Besides working on the dispersal and recruitment of larvae of crustaceans she has also done some work on the taxonomy of the adult phase of caridean shrimps (Decapoda). In 2016 she created the GelAvista citizen science project to monitor the stranding's of jellyfish in Portuguese coasts. Antonina research topics is to investigate how environmental conditions influence ecological patterns and processes, such as abundance and productivity, distribution, and size structure of plankton species. She has been involved in many scientific multidisciplinary projects subject to competitive tendering national and European, 7 of which as coordinator. Consequently, she has been chief scientist on more than 15 multidisciplinary oceanographic surveys off the Portuguese coast. She has guided many students from graduates to masters theses, doctoral and post-doc in Portugal and Spain, among others. Since 2014 she is member of ICES Science Committee, is editor of ICES Leaflets for Plankton and academic editor of the journal PeerJ. Antonina has previously worked as Director of the Department of Sea and Marine Resources at IPMA.