José Diogo Cruz holds a MSc in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, from Aveiro University. During that period he worked for the EU project SPLASH in AlgaePARC at Wageningen and Research University, Netherlands. In CIIMAR he started has a research fellow in the Interreg EnhanceMicroAlgae project and cooperated in the curation of LEGE Culture Collection. Currently, he is a PhD student in Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture Doctoral Program of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. His work focus on the development of a cyanobacterial bioprocess for the production of polysaccharides in a partnership with University of Clermont Auvergne in France and a national enterprise. He is also working in the development of the first European algae standards in a cooperation with the Portuguese Institute of Quality (IPQ) and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) under the action CEN/TC 454 WG 02 – Identification and Detection of algae biomass.
