Joana Campos graduated in Aquatic Sciences at the University of Porto in 1997 and concluded her PhD in Biology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2009. She joined CIIMAR in 2003 in the research line of Global Changes and Ecosystems Services. Her research interests focus on latitudinal trends in the biology of estuarine epibenthos, specially crustaceans, relating those trends to environmental constraints. She has also embraced several science dissemination projects to promote Ocean literacy.
