PrintDiana Castro hold a BSc degree in Biochemistry followed by a MSc degree in Food Biochemistry both obtained in University of Aveiro. During the academic formation, Diana worked on a project whose main purpose was to assess the impacts of environmental contamination of mercury on European eel. During her master thesis Diana did a curricular internship in the company “Irmãos Monteiro, S.A.” where she worked in the field of food quality/safety. After her MSc degree she worked in the following subjects: synthesis of substrates nanostructured with metal nanoparticles and recycling metals from secondary sources. Between July 2018 and December 2019, Diana was a research fellow in CBQF, ESB-UCP, in the project “BIONANOSCULP: Development of bionanomaterials for anti-microbial coating of metal and stone-based outdoor sculptures” where she worked in green conservation/bionanotechnology. Currently, Diana Castro is a PhD Student in Biotechnology in CBQF, ESB-UCP, with a FCT PhD grant (since January 2020).
Publications
Castro, D., Mieiro, C.L., Coelho, J.P., Guilherme, S., Marques, A., Santos, M.A., Duarte, A.C., Pereira, E., Pacheco, M. (2018). Addressing the impact of mercury estuarine contamination in the European eel (Anguilla anguilla L., 1758) – An early diagnosis in glass eel stage based on erythrocytic nuclear morphology. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 127: 733-742.
