On December 20 our researcher Pedro Vaz completed his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Évora with Distinction and Laud (scored 19, from 0-20). The Summa Cum Laude was earned for his dissertation "Long-term effects of Portuguese forest fires on morphology and aquatic habitat structure of lotic ecosystems", resulting in 5 publications in Quartile 1 journals such as Freshwater Science. As a result of the financial support by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PhD grant SFRH/BD/45490/2008), Pedro just completed 11 co-authored ISI articles over the 4-year PhD, where he represented CEABN InBIO and fully justify the funding. CEABN InBIO is also very pleased with the collaborative network achieved during this PhD, involving the Water Laboratory from the Centre for Geophysics of

Monday, 09 December 2013