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Editor​

  • Associate Editor of Heredity (2019-present) 

  • Guest editor of a special issue in Speciation in Marine Environments at Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2019-2021)

  • Guest co-editor of a special issue in Ecological Speciation at the International Journal of Ecology (2011-2012)

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Reviewer- journals

  • Plos Genetics

  • PNAS

  • Evolution

  • Heredity

  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

  • Conservation Genetics

  • Molecular Ecology

  • Nature Communications

  • Nature Ecology and Evolution

  • Frontiers in Genetics

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

  • Hydrobiologia

  • Journal of Molluscan Studies

  • Trends in Ecology and Evolution

  • Journal of Heredity

  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

  • BMC Evolutionary Biology

  • Axios Review

  • PeerJ

  • Journal of Applied Ecology

  • Marine Biology

  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

  • Journal of Fish Biology

  • Animal Biodiversity and Conservation

  • Fishery Bulletin

  • Integrative and Comparative Biology

  • Mammal Review

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Reviewer - international research projects 

2023. Reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre

2022. Reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation

2022. Reviewer for ERC Starting Grant, European Union

2022. Reviewer for the Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom

2021. Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation (Eccellenza programme)

2015. Reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre

2014. Reviewer for the Polish National Science Centre

2013. Reviewer for the Czech Science Foundation

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Reviewer - PhD programs

2020. Member of the Juri that evaluated the candidates of the PhD BYT program at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Portugal.

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Reviewer - theses' committees

2024. Member of the thesis evaluation committee of the PhD student Paulo Pereira. University of Porto, Portugal.

2022. Member of the thesis evaluation committee of the PhD student Nina Séren. University of Porto, Portugal.

2022. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the  master student Bernardo Lima. University of Porto, Portugal.

2022. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the master student João Souto. University of Porto, Portugal

2015-­2020. Member of the thesis committee (external) of the PhD student Jonathan Fernández Rodríguez. University of Vigo, Spain.

2015­-2018. Member of the thesis committee (external) of the PhD student Daniel Estévez Barcia. University of Vigo, Spain.

2016. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the master student Susana Almeida. University of Porto, Portugal

2014. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the GABBA PhD student João Alves. University of Porto, Portugal.

2014. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the master student Maria Silva. University of Lisbon, Portugal.

2013. Member of the thesis evaluation committee of the PhD student Francisco Marco Rius. University of Vigo, Spain.

2012. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the master student Helder Henrique Ribeiro Rocha. University of Aveiro, Portugal.

2011. Member of the thesis evaluation committee (main opponent) of the master student Rui Oliveira. University of Porto, Portugal.

2009. Member of the thesis evaluation committee of the PhD student Monica Martínez ­Fernández. University of Vigo, Spain.

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Organization of conferences and courses

• 2024. XX Portuguese Society Evolutionary Biology meeting (ENBE), Vila do Conde, Portugal (to occur in December 2024)

• 2023. XIII ISOLBE: International Symposium on Littorinid Biology and Evolution. Vila do Conde, Portugal

• 2023. Workshop on Eco-Evolutionary dynamics during environmental change (two editions)

• 2019. XV Portuguese Society Evolutionary Biology meeting (ENBE), Porto, Portugal

• 2018. Marine Speciation session in the Marine Evolution conference, Strömstad, Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden

• 2015. Symposium "Charting the genomic landscape of speciation" at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)  Lausanne, Switzerland

• 2015. “Programming for Evolutionary Biology Conference (PEB 2015)”, CIBIO, Portugal

• 2013. Symposium "Genomic Islands: their role in adaptation and speciation" at ESEB 2013, Lisbon, Portugal

• 2013. “Advances in Ecological Speciation” international conference, CIBIO, Portugal

• 2012 - 2017. “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” extended course (five editions) held at the Univ. of Leipzig, Germany (http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/?page_id=11)

• 2011. “First-like” - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching (FIRST) IV Workshop at CIBIO, Portugal 

• 2011. “The Bioinformatics Roadshow - Porto” workshop at CIBIO, Portugal (Main host organizer together with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

• 2010. “TIBE2010 - Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution” international conference, CIBIO, Portugal (Main organizer together with Catarina Pinho and José-Melo Ferreira)

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Memberships to relevant societies

2023-present. Vice-president of the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology.

2019-present. Member of the Genetics Society.

2011­- present. Member of the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology (created in 2011).

2011­-2012. Member of the direction board of the commission that created the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology (role: Secretary).

2004­-present. Member of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology.

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Participation in Scientific Committees

2024.Member of the scientific committee of the XX ENBE conference.

2023.Member of the scientific committee of the XIX ENBE conference.

2023.Member of the scientific committee of the XIII ISOLBE conference.

2022. Member of the scientific committee of the conference TiBE 2022 - THE BIOLOGY OF COLOUR.

2019. Member of the scientific committee of the XV Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology. CIIMAR, Porto, Portugal.

2015. Member of the scientific committee of the X Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Caparica, Portugal.

2013. Member of the scientific committee of the IX Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.
2011. Member of the scientific committee of the VII Portuguese Meeting of Evolutionary Biology. Science Museum, Coimbra, Portugal.

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Other relevant activities

• Cosignatory of the manuscript

Ripple WJ, Wolf C, Newsome TM, Galetti M, Alamgir M, Crist E, Mahmoud MI, Laurance WF, 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries (2017) World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice. BioScience, 67, 1026–1028.

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