https://oceanexpert.org/expert/15922

ORCID : 0000-0002-1048-8009
ResearcherID : 0000-0002-1048-8009

Doctoral (PhD, ScD)

Research

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Fisheries, Aquaculture

Tiago Repolho is a researcher at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL, Portugal) and Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente (MARE, Portugal). He completed his BSc in Biology (2001) at the Universidade de Aveiro (2001), obtained an MSc (Biology and Marine Resources Management, 2007) at FCUL and a PhD (Marine Biology and Aquaculture, 2012) at the same institution. After completing his FCT-funded PhD (2012), he pursued an FCT-funded postdoc to explore the adaptive potential of marine biota to environmental drivers of ocean warming, ocean acidification and deoxygenation/hypoxia. Marine Sciences, specifically Marine Aquaculture and Global Change Biology, are areas of great interest to him. He aims to apply his multidisciplinary expertise in developing a marine aquaculture research line while contributing to future decision-making strategies focused on aquaculture development, environmental sustainability, and blue growth. He aims to advance echinoculture research by addressing key challenges in sea urchin captive production (e.g., nutritional trade-offs, environmental control), the sustainability of wild populations (e.g., restocking), and the impacts of climate change (e.g., alternative cultivation methods). His approach involves developing solutions and implementing innovative, eco-friendly, and emerging technologies/methodologies through an interdisciplinary framework, including Analytical Biochemistry, AI-based technologies, Physiology, Marine Aquaculture/Aquaponics, Metabarcoding and -Omics techniques.

Tiago has acted as PI (n=4), Co-PI (n=2), PhD (n=15) or BSc/MSc fellow (n=6) team member in 26 national/international R&D&I-funded projects. Funded from various sources (e.g. EU 5th FP- EC Research, technological development and demonstration activities, EU Maritime and Fisheries Fund, EU Regional Development Fund, FCT), which allowed him to secure ~1.26 M€ (as PI/CoPI) and ~3.75 M€ (as PhD team member) since 2013. These achievements prompted the establishment of a robust international research network (45.5% of published scientific papers are co-authored with researchers from other countries), furthering his work. He has published 56 international peer-reviewed papers (H-index: 25; total citations: 1702; average annual citations: 73, 2006-2025). Of these, 51,5% are in the top 25% of the most cited peer-reviewed scientific papers worldwide, and 75% are in the top 25% journals by CiteScore (source: Scopus). He has performed 64 oral and 58 poster communications at national and international meetings. His work has also been recognised by renowned institutions, such as the EU Commission, and has garnered media attention from national (e.g., RTP2) and international (e.g., Discovery News) sources. At his host institutions (MARE and FCUL), Tiago is a scientific committee member (MARE, since 2019), elected member of the Animal Welfare Body (FCUL, since 2021), animal welfare and scientific SCUBA diving officer (since 2021) at Laboratório Marítimo da Guia (Portugal).

Currently, Tiago supervises 1 PhD and 5 MSc students (supervised 2 Postdocs, 5 MSc students, 6 MSc research scholars, 5 Erasmus+ interns, since 2016), performs experimental tutoring to MSc and PhD students (since 2012) and performed advanced course training for PhD students (PhD programme in Biology; PhD programme in Marine Sciences, FCUL, 2015-21). Besides acting as a lecturer at FCUL (MSc in Marine Ecology, MSc in Marine Sciences, BSc in Biology, since 2019), he performs invited lectures at various educational levels (BSc, MSc) within other academic institutions (since 2004). He is a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE, since 2021) and the Global Ocean Acidification Network (GOA-ON, since 2018). Additionally, he acts as a reviewer for international publishers (44 verified peer reviews, 16 scientific journals, One book editor, since 2011 source: WoS). His commitment is also to science outreach, with 50 school-oriented activities performed (since 2012). Besides aiming to foster innovative research, Tiago urges to pursue additional goals to: i) consolidate a solid and multidisciplinary research team, ii) develop his lecturing career while performing the supervision and training of students (all levels and backgrounds), iii) secure external funding (national/international) while further coordinate R&D&I projects, iii) strengthen his national/international collaborative network, with academia and private partners, and v) foster the link between research and society (e.g. science outreach).

North Atlantic Ocean

Aquaculture
Climate Change
Marine Aquaponics
Physiology
Biochemistry

English

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