Biografia
Nuno Borges is Auxiliary Researcher at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre - Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (MARE-IPS). He is Invited Adjunct Professor of Microbiology (Environmental and Food) and Food Safety in Aquaculture at the Setúbal School of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (EST-IPS), Portugal. He graduated in biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 1999. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), New University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2004, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the ITQB (Portugal), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and Kyoto University (Japan) from 2004 to 2008. He was then awarded the Research Scientist contract "Ciência" (2008-2019) at the ITQB. From 2019 to 2021, he was a doctorate Researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal). He has published 34 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, with an h-index of 21 and an i-10 index of 27. His published work has been cited more than 1,400 times, being welcomed by highly ranked, multidisciplinary, and specialized journals such as Annual Reviews in Animal Biosciences, Environmental Microbiology, Nature communications, Microbiological Research, and applied and Environmental Microbiology. Since 2007, he has contributed as reviewer for several indexed journals, including Extremophiles, J. Bacteriology, and Research in Microbiology. Since 2010, he has supervised 4 Ph.D., 2 M.Sc., and 4 undergraduate students (1 ongoing) in the framework of 16 R&D projects (2 as principal investigator). He was invited to deliver 5 oral communications in international conferences. He co-organized one international congress (400 participants) and was engaged as a co-organizer or participant in several dissemination activities. Dr. Borges's interest in the development of microbiome-derived applications to improve food production led him to perform advanced research on the beneficial symbionts of land plants and fish. In 2022, he started a novel aquaculture and molecular microbiology laboratory at EST-IPS. Currently, he is focused on the suppression of shellfish/fish diseases caused by opportunistic bacteria in aquaculture using microbiome therapy to sustainably manage human-made ecosystems.