Marlene Pinheiro graduated, in 2015, in Forensic Laboratory Sciences from the University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS-CESPU). In 2018 Marlene obtained a Master’s degree in Environmental Contamination and Toxicology from the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) and the Faculty of Sciences (FCUP) of the University of Porto and in 2024 Marlene completed her PhD in Biology from FCUP. Currently, Marlene is a research fellow at CIIMAR focusing on assessing the effects of deep-sea mining related stressors, mainly sediment and ore plumes, and evaluating the combined exposure to rare earth elements and marine heat wave conditions in invertebrates.
