Susana Loureiro
University of Aveiro
Biography
Susana Loureiro is an Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Biology Department, University of Aveiro, and the coordinator of the Research Group Environmental Changes, Hazards & Conservation of CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies. She started her undergraduate studies at the University of Coimbra in Biology, followed by an MSc in Ecology at the same university.
In 2004 she was awarded a PhD in Biology at the University of Aveiro. Her main topics of research are related to mixture toxicity assessment, combined effects of chemicals and natural stressors, and nano-ecotoxicology, including both fate and effects of nanomaterials.
Within national and international projects in these areas, Susana has published more than 200 papers (h index=34) and graduated 19 PhD students and 29 MSc students. She is one of the members of the Science for Environment Policy Advisory Group, where she reviews studies proposed to be in the News Alert.
She is the University of Aveiro representative of the Portuguese Technical Commission for Nanotechnologies CT 194 and co-Chair for Ecotoxicology of the U.S.-EU Nanotechnology Communities of Research (CORs). Susana Loureiro lectures Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Bioindicators of Pollution, Environmental Physiology, and Entomology and advances courses for PhD programmes.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Environmental Science: Nano