Joana Faria da Costa completed her degree in Aquatic Sciences in 2006 and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 2012 at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Microbiome Ecology and Biogeochemistry at CIIMAR. Her expertise includes molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, and environmental toxicology. Her primary research interests center on microbial communities involved in mercury and nitrogen cycling, as well as pollutant detoxification in polar environments.
