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Regina Maria Brandão de Oliveira Duarte

Principal Researcher

Author Name : Regina M.B.O. Duarte

Researcher ID: E-1115-2011
ORCID: 0000-0002-1825-6528
Ciencia ID: 2A16-7DD8-28D2
Department: Chemistry
Research Group: Biogeochemical Processes & Pollutants (BPP)
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM search factor: AU=(Duarte RMBO*) AND AD=(Aveiro)

Research interests

1| Application of advanced multidimensional analytical techniques (e.g., solid- and liquid-state NMR spectroscopy and two-dimensional liquid chromatography) for the characterization of complex organic matrices, mainly from air particles (but also water and soil)
2| Structural and molecular composition of organic aerosols
3| Atmospheric stressors
4| Health effects of organic aerosols
5| Wet and dry deposition of organic aerosols

Academic degrees

2006: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
2001: M.Sc. in Sciences of the Coastal Zone, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
1998: Degree in Analytical Chemistry, University of Aveiro (Portugal)

Scientific activities

- January 2020 - present: Principal Researcher at Department of Chemistry and CESAM, University of Aveiro.
- January 2017 - December 2019: Principal Researcher (with a “Investigador FCT” contract, IF/00798/2015) at Department of Chemistry and CESAM, University of Aveiro.
- February 2015 – December 2016: Post-Doctoral Researcher (SFRH/BPD/102882/2014) at Department of Chemistry and CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials & CESAM, University of Aveiro.
- June 2014 – December 2014: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Department of Chemistry and CESAM, University of Aveiro.
- June 2009 – May 2014: Assistant Researcher (“Ciência 2008” FCT contract) at Department of Chemistry and CESAM, University of Aveiro.
- June 2006 – May 2009: Post-Doctoral Researcher (SFRH/BPD/22679/2005) at Department of Chemistry and CESAM, University of Aveiro.

Others

- Sept. 2018 - Nov. 2018: Fulbright Visiting Scholar, awarded by the Fulbright Scholar Program to develop Advanced Research and University Lecturing activities in the United States (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Field of Research: Environmental Sciences).
- Management Committee Member from Portugal in COST Action CA17136 - Indoor air pollution network (INDAIRPOLLNET) (20 September 2018 - 19 September 2022). Link: http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA1713.
- Management Committee Member from Portugal in CMST COST Action CM1304 - Emergence and Evolution of Complex Chemical Systems (03 December 2013 - 02 December 2017). Link: http://www.cost.eu/domains_act.....ons/CM1304.

Publications

Projects

NETA- New Strategies for Waste Water Treatment See more

AMBIEnCE - Impact of atmospheric multi-stressors to coastal marine systems in a changing climate scenario See more

NanoFertil - Effect of soil (in)organic constituents on the efficacy, fate and phytoavailability of fertilizer and plant protection manufactured nanomaterials See more

TransIMO - Transfer of organic matter at the continent-ocean interface: research in two aquatic systems from tropical and temperate areas based on molecular and isotopic markers See more

CN-linkAIR - Can the carbon and nitrogen linkage patterns reveal the origin of the water-soluble organic matter in atmospheric aerosols? See more

Assessment of the presence and distribution of hazardous substances in sediments and waters of Mediterranean temporary rivers: case of Sebou basin See more

ORQUE SUDOE - Research Centre for Environmental Quality in Southwest Europe See more

ORGANOSOL - Organic Matter in Atmospheric Aerosols: Composition, Variability, and Sources at Urban Portuguese Areas See more

Scientific Supervision

PhD (Main Supervisor): Antoine Simões Almeida (CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Raquel Sofia Ribeiro Lopes (ex-CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Antoine Almeida (not a CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): João Tiago Viana de Matos (ex-CESAM member)

Master (Main Supervisor): Ana Carolina Barros (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Andreia Ventura (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Inês Rodrigues (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Andreia Santos Paula (ex-CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Tiago Portela (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Ane Iruretagoiena (not a CESAM member)

Master (Co-supervisor): Lydie Ferreira dos Santos (not a CESAM member)

Bolseiro de Investigação (Main Supervisor): Antoine Simões Almeida (CESAM member)

Research Fellow (Main Supervisor): Sónia Pereira Lopes (ex-CESAM member)

Research Fellow (Main Supervisor): Catarina Alexandra Dias Loureiro (ex-CESAM member)

Research Fellow (Main Supervisor): Andreia Santos Paula (ex-CESAM member)

Research Fellow (Co-supervisor): João Tiago Viana de Matos (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Main Supervisor): Pedro Francisco da Silva Brandão (CESAM member)

PhD (Co-supervisor): João Tiago Viana de Matos (ex-CESAM member)

PhD (Co-supervisor): Sandra Maria Semedo Carvalho Freire (ex-CESAM member)

Post-doc (Main Supervisor): Eliana Filipa Carrinho Simões (CESAM member)

Post-doc (Co-supervisor): Francisco Javier Pena Pereira (ex-CESAM member)

Participation in research projects

"Effect of soil (in)organic constituents on the efficacy, fate and phytoavailability of fertilizer and plant protection manufactured nanomaterials" (PTDC/AGR-PRO/6262/2014), 01/07/2016 – 30/06/2019.

“WATERQUAL–Development and validation of analytical advanced methods for water quality assessment: support for the implementation of the WFD in Portugal” (POCI/V.5/A0066/2005), Nov 2007– Dec 2008.

“Comparison and spectroscopic characterization of humic-like substances from atmospheric aerosols collected in different environments”. Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Protocol between the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the University Mohammed V (Rabat, Morocco), financial support from “Gabinete de Relações Internacionais da Ciência e do Ensino Superior” (GRICES, Portugal) and “Centre National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique” (CNRST, Morocco), 2006-2007.

“Removing colour and toxicity from bleached Kraft pulp mill effluents” (PRAXIS/3/3.1/CEG/2636/95), 1997-2000.

A voluntary participation scheme in the following national and European research projects: -“BIOGEST – Biogas transfer in estuaries” (EU, Environment & Climate and ELOISE (European Land Ocean Interactions Studies), Contract nº ENV4-CT96-0213, 1996-1999); -“From Eucalyptus globulus to paper: from ECF to TEF – Evaluation of the process consequences of reducing the water consumption in the production of bleached Kraft pulp” (Programme PRAXIS XXI, Ref. PRAXIS/3/3.2/papel/2322/95, 1997-2000).

Other activities

PEER REVIEW REFEREE WORK:

“Chemical Reviews” and “Environmental Science & Technology”, published by American Chemical Society;

“Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”, published by Copernicus Publications;

“Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics”, and “Environmental Science: Nano”, published by Royal Society of Chemistry;

“Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres”, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.;

“TrAC-Trends in Analytical Chemistry”, “Journal of Chromatography A”, “Analytica Chimica Acta”, “Science of the Total Environment”, “Environmental Pollution”, “Atmospheric Environment”, “Atmospheric Research”, “Water Research”, “Geoderma”, and “Journal of Membrane Science”, published by Elsevier;

“PLOS ONE”, published by Public Library of Science;

“Aerosol Science and Technology”, “International Journal of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry” and “Spectroscopy Letters”, published by Taylor & Francis;

“Environmental Science and Pollution Research”, published by Springer;

“Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências”, published by Academia Brasileira de Ciências.

EXTERNAL EVALUATOR OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS:

COST Trans-Domain Proposals

German Research Foundation

National Science Foundation (USA)

ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS:

20/09/2010: Biosphere-Atmosphere interaction in a changing environment: from local to global scale

30/05/2013: Innovative tools and technological solutions for the management and sustainability of coastal zones

13/11/2013: Does Natural Organic Matter? Contribution from ORGANOSOL Project

09/04/2015: Trace me if you can: using high-resolution strategies to unravel natural organic matter

23/10/2019: Impact of atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic stressors in coastal ecosystems. Contribution from AMBIEnCE Project

Highlights

FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027806 || PTDC/AAG-MAA/2584/2012

Workshop “Does Natural Organic Matter? - Contribution from ORGANOSOL Project

Year 2020:

Research paper “Structural features and pro-inflammatory effects of water-soluble organic matter in inhalable fine urban air particles”, authored/co-authored by researchers from RG EPP from CESAM, in collaboration with researchers from iBiMED and QOPNA & LAVQ-REQUIMTE, from the University of Aveiro, is highlighted as Cover of Environmental Science & Technology: https://pubs.acs.org/toc/esthag/54/2# (full bibliographic details: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2020, 54, 2, 1082-1091; https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b04596).

Year 2019:

Workshop "Impact of atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic stressors in coastal ecosystems | Contribution from AMBIEnCE Project", 23rd October 2019 (09:30-16:00). Additional Information at: https://projectambience.wordpress.com/.

Endorsement of AMBIEnCE by "Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)" project, sponsored by GEOMAR. Additional Information at: https://projectambience.wordpress.com/.

Year 2018:

Fulbright grant for Portuguese Scholars and Researchers, Advanced Research and University Lecturing Award in the United States, Academic Year 2018/2019. Research activities to be developed in Environmental Sciences research area, specifically, in the application of advanced multidimensional analytical techniques for the molecular characterization of the organic fraction of inhalable atmospheric particles. Research activities will be devloped at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA). Additional information at: http://www.fulbright.pt/result.....outorados/ | http://www.fulbright.pt/fulbri.....2018-2019/

Nominated as Management Committee Member [CA17136 PT] to COST Action CA17136 (Indoor air pollution network (INDAIRPOLLNET).

Inception of the R&D project "AMBIEnCE: Impact of atmospheric multi-stressors to coastal marine systems in a changing climate scenario" (PTDC/CTA-AMB/28582/2017). The website of the AMBIEnCE project offficially launched at https://projectambience.wordpress.com/.

Year 2015:

Workshop "Trace me if you can: using high-resolution strategies to unravel natural organic matter", 9th of April 2015 (14:30-17:30). Additional information at: http://organosolproject.wordpress.com/ and https://cnlinkair.wordpress.com

The website of the CN-linkAIR project has been updated! Have a look at new material such as the latest results and dissemination activities at https://cnlinkair.wordpress.com.

Year 2013:

Inception of the R&D project "CN-linkAIR: Can the carbon and nitrogen linkage patterns reveal the origin of the water-soluble organic matter in atmospheric aerosols?" (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027806; PTDC/AAG-MAA/2584/2012).

Inception of the R&D project "Assessment of the presence and distribution of hazardous substances in sediments and waters of Mediterranean temporary rivers : case of Sebou basin" (Technological and Scientific Cooperation FCT/CNRST - Morocco - 2013/2014).

Workshop "Does Natural Organic Matter? Contribution from ORGANOSOL Project", 13th of November 2013 (14:00-17:30), Amphitheatre of Geosciences, University of Aveiro. Additional information at: http://organosolproject.wordpress.com/.

Year 2012:

Inception of the R&D project "ORGANOSOL - Organic Matter in Atmospheric Aerosols: Composition, Variability, and Sources at Urban Portuguese Areas" (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-019913; PTDC/CTE-ATM/118551/2010). Additional information at: http://organosolproject.wordpress.com/.

Participation in the R&D project "ORQUE SUDOE - Research Centre for Environmental Quality in Southwest Europe", under the Territorial Cooperation Progamme INTERREG IV B SUDOE (http://interreg-sudoe.eu/PRT).

Review Paper published in TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry [40 (2012) 90-105] included on Top 25 Hottest Articles of TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry - October to December 2012 (http://top25.sciencedirect.com.....archive/41).

Year 2011:

J. Chromatogr. A 1218 (2011) 2240-2251, highlighted the paper Duarte R.M.B.O. & Duarte, A. C., J. Chromatogr. A 1217 (2010) 7556-7563, for introducing a new Chromatographic Response Function (CRF), which was considered "especially advisable to qualify chromatograms used in the authentication of unknown samples, for which standards are not available".

Main research areas:

An Omics Strategy for Untargeted Profiling of Environmental Complexity

NMR experiments employed in the structural characterization of aerosol WSOM

1| Analytical and Environmental Chemistry with emphasis in the development of multidimensional analytical strategies for decoding the complexity of natural organic matter from different environmental compartments (atmosphere, water, soils).

2| Development of expertise in the application of different sophisticated analytical techniques (One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional NMR, FTIR-ATR, and Excitation-Emission Matrix Fluorescence Spectroscopies, and Two-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography coupled to different detectors) for unravelling complex organic environmental matrices.

3| Development of mathematical tools for data processing in multidimensional analytical strategies applied to complex organic mixtures.

4| Composition of organic aerosol.

5| Atmospheric stressors.

6| Wet and dry deposition of organic aerosols.

7| Comparison of structural features of natural organic matter from different environmental matrices (waters vs. atmosphere vs. soils).

Specialization

Analytical and Environmental Chemistry with emphasis on the analysis of complex matrices.

Previous activity and current status:

High- and low-volume samplers for atmospheric aerosols

Current status:

Since January 2020: Principal Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro.

Previous activity:

1/01/2017 - 31/12/2019: Principal Researcher (FCT Investigator Contract, Reference: IF/00798/2015), Department of Chemistry & CESAM, University of Aveiro;

01/02/2015 - 31/12/2016: Post-Doctoral Researcher (Ref.: SFRH/BPD/102882/2014) from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry, CICECO, CESAM);

01/06/2014 - 31/12/2014: Post-Doctoral research grant from Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry);

01/06/2009 - 31/05/2014: Assistant Researcher, Contract "Ciência 2008", Department of Chemistry & CESAM, University of Aveiro;

01/06/2006 - 31/05/2009: Post-Doctoral grant (Ref.: SFRH/BPD/22679/2005) from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry);

01/11/2003 - 30/04/2006; PhD degree grant (Ref.: SFRH/BD/14227/2003) from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry);

01/01/2002 - 31/10/2003: Research grant from Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry);

01/11/1999 - 30/11/2001: MSc degree grant from University of Aveiro (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry);

01/12/1998 - 31/10/1999: Scientific Initiation grant (Ref.: PRAXIS/BIC/17164/98) from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, Program PRAXIS XXI, (Institution: University of Aveiro, Department of Chemistry).

Academic Details

PhD in Chemistry, University of Aveiro (2006)

MSc in Sciences of the Coastal Zone, University of Aveiro (2001)

Degree in Analytical Chemistry, University of Aveiro (1998)