Ivone Vaz-Moreira graduated in Biochemistry at the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Sciences and Technology) in 2005 and completed her Ph.D. in Biotechnology with specialization in Microbiology at Biotechnology College from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2012.
Presently she is a researcher at CBQF.
Her research is focused in Environmental Microbiology, associated with aquatic habitats and their intersections with soil/sediments, plants, animals, and finally humans; including the study of the bacterial diversity with particular emphasis on the urban water cycle and the potential of antibiotic resistance dissemination from aquatic environments. In 2014, she was considered one of the ten bacterial taxonomists in Portugal. Academic editor of PlosOne journal and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
She has experience in different methodologies, from most classical microbiology methods till last generation Microbiology and Molecular Biology methods, as the use of bioinformatics tools for metagenomics analysis.
Additional information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivone_Vaz-Moreira; https://publons.com/wos-op/researcher/761315/ivone-vaz-moreira/