My research field is focused on continental zooplankton ecology. I defended my PhD dissertation at the University of Granada (UGR) in 2003. I enjoyed a FPU predoctoral fellowship to work on biotic interactions as regulators of rotifer populations, specifically, in rotifer-phytoplankton interactions and in rotifer-crustacean interactions. I obtained extensive experience in isolation and maintenance of cultures and laboratory experimentation with microalgae and model cladoceransand rotifers. Later, I was a postdoctoral researcher (2003-2005) at the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (University of Valencia, Spain) working on mechanisms of coexistence of cryptic species of rotifers with Dr. M. Serra. There, I started my interest in evolutionary ecology using molecular tools and DNA taxonomy for rotifers. Since2006, I have been linked to the UGR as an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, being attached to the Institute of Water Research of UGR. I has been working on different research lines: phenotypic plasticity in rotifers, zooplankton resilience – by hatching of diapause eggs from sedimentary egg banks – in shallow lakes, toxic effects on planktonic and benthic animals of magnetic microparticles potentially used in the restoration of eutrophic lakes, and key factors that control the continental scale distribution of cyanobacterial toxins. Actually, my research is focused on effects of global change in Mediterranean high mountain aquatic ecosystems of Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain), and, now I just started with great enthusiasm a new research line in Stress Ecology to assess how determinant are contaminants for habitat selection by organisms and the spatial distribution of species using a non-forced multi-compartmented exposure system.

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CV: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eloisa_Ramos-Rodriguez
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2440-0765

Currently, my main scientific motivation is to understand the biodiversity of marine ecosystems. However, my fascination with marine ecosystems is longstanding. It began when I chose to study Biology at University of Seville and Marine Sciences at University of Cadiz. I took my first steps in science at the Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia (CSIC), studying benthic communities of several coastal ecosystems in the Gulf of Cadiz. During many years, I have been involved in a long-term ecological research in the Guadalquivir estuary, which has set up a time series of monthly sampling of the aquatic communities of the estuary. The basis for my PhD was theoretical individual-based models based on a high resolution individual-based food web dataset of the Guadalquivir estuary. Since 2004, I have worked for the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO). In 2008, I assumed the scientific leadership of the Porcupine bottom trawl survey, which takes place every September at the Porcupine bank (West of Ireland) and became a member of the ICES International Bottom Trawl Surveys Working Group (IBTSWG), which coordinates the European bottom trawling surveys in the North Sea and the North East Atlantic. Overall, I have extensive experience in fieldwork including over 50 oceanographic cruises. The combination between the empirical and theoretical facets is, perhaps, the most outstanding characteristic of my career.

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CV: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francisco_Baldo2
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4220-4207

My research field is focused on the impact of the chemicals of emerging concern   such as nanoparticles, antibiotics, personal care products and micro and nanoplastics on aquatic system from microalgae, crustaceans, bivalves and fish. In my research I applied immunologic and genomics approach to assess the effects of pollutants on organisms from physiological, cellular and molecular levels. I have studied Environmental Science in Granada University and I have studied 2 master Degrees with scientific profile; biomedicine and oceanography. I am Dr.in Management and Conservation of the Sea from Cádiz University (2014-2017). I have developed my PhD in ICMAN-CSIC with a contract of Junta de Andalucía (JA). Currently I have a national postdosctoral contract; Juan de la in IIM-CSIC (Vigo). I have published 24 scientific papers being the first author on 17 of them. All the publications were published in Q1 journals, with several publications in first decil. Also, I have published 3 book chapters. I have collaborated in scientific publications with other institutions such as Yale University, the University of Siena, the University of Genova, Algarve University, the Federal University of São Paulo; Brazil, the Carnegie Institution for Science; Stanford, USA, the Arturo Prat; Chile and private institutions in USA. Furthermore, regional institutions such as University of La Coruña, Huelva, Córdoba and Cádiz. 

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9317-0217

Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Limnology, Zooplankton and Phytoplankton Ecology, Biochemical Biomarkers, Ecosystem Models, Toxic Mixtures and Ecological Risk Assessment

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ORCID: 0000-0001-9392-8067

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Biomarkers and Behavioral Ecotoxicology

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ORCID: 0000-0002-1215-0378

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Ciencia de la computación e inteligencia artificial

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2690-090X

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Ecological Risk Assessment; Aquatic Ecotoxicology; Ecologically Relevant Tools to assess environmental impact in different climate zones

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ORCID: 0000-0001-7067-5028

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Ecology, Stress Ecology, Environmental Physiology, Ecotoxicology and Population Genetics

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ORCID: 0000-0002-0883-1939

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Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Alternative Methods to Animal Experimentation with Amphibians

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ORCID: 0000-0002-9325-0329

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