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• 2022-2024: INSIGNIA-EU Preparatory action for monitoring of environmental pollution using honey bees. Service contract with DG Environment, European Commission (N°09.200200/2021/864096/SER/ENV.D.2). Coordinator of the Portuguese team.
• 2022-2025: POIROT - Novel methods and approaches for detecting the illegal addition of Pharmaceutical drugs and bOtanIcal adulteRatiOn in planT food supplements. Funded by the National Science Foundation, FCT (PTDC/SAU-PUB/3803/2021). Co-Coordinator.
• 2021-2024: MEDIBEES- Monitoring the Mediterranean honey bee subspecies and their resilience to climate change for the improvement of sustainable agro-ecosystems. Funded by the PRIMA program – PRIMA S1 2020 FARMING SYSTEMS (RIA) sub topic A, European Commission (MEDIBEES-2011). Coordinator of the Portuguese team.
• 2021-2023: Plano Estratégico de Gestão Integrada da Vespa velutina para o Território das Terras de Trás-os-Montes. Funded by POSEUR - Programa Operacional Sustentabilidade e Eficiência no Uso de Recursos (POSEUR-15-2021-02). Researcher.
• 2020-2023: NORDTEST- COVID19 - SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Northeast of Portugal: developing knowledge and tools towards a better management of the disease. Referência: 02/SAICT/2020/072562. Funded by Projetos de Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (IC&DT), Programa Testar com Ciência e Solidariedade. Co-Coordinator.
• 2020-2024: BeeConSel - Joint effort for honey bee conservation and selection. Fundeded by EEA and Norway Grants for Regional Cooperation (2018-1-0477). Consultant.
• 2020-2023: BEE-PATHO-BIOME - Patobioma de las abejas melíferas: microbiota en la salud y la enfermedad. Funded by Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de la Junta de Comunidades de Castilla - La Mancha, Espanha (SBPLY/19/180501/000334). Researcher.
• 2020-2022: AUTENT+ – Desenvolvimento de abordagens inovadoras com vista à valorização e exploração do potencial de mercado do mel Português. Funded by the national beekeeping program (PAN 2020-2022). Researcher.
• 2018-2021: INSIGNIA – Environmental monitoring of pesticide use through honeybees”. Funded by the Health and Food Safety Directorate General, European Commission (SANTE/E4/SI2.788418-SI2.788452-INSIGINIA). Coordinator of the Portuguese team.
• 2018-2022: BEEHAPPY - Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Health in the Azores: comparing ePidemiological Patterns in a unique natural laboratory. Funded by the National Science Foundation, FCT (POCI – SAICT, 02/SAICT/2017). Coordinator.
• 2018-2020: Field data collection for honey bee colony model evaluation. OC/EFSA/SCER/2017/02. Service contract with EFSA, European Commission. Researcher.
• 2017-2019: ApisCibus - Artificial food for honeybees: quality survey, digestibility and performance on the bee hive. Funded by the national beekeeping program (PAN 2017-2019). Researcher.
• 2017-2020: BEEHEAL - Promoting bee health for sustainable agriculture. Funded by the ERA-NET/ARIMNET program (ARIMNET2/0002/2016). Coordinator of the Portuguese team.
• 2016-2017: GesVespa: sustainable management strategies of Vespa velutina. Funded by POSEUR (Programa Operacional Sustentabilidade e Eficiência no Uso de Recursos). Researcher.
• 2015-2017: BEEHOPE - Honeybee Conservation centers in Western Europe: an innovative strategy using sustainable beekeeping to reduce honeybee decline. Funded by the ERA-NET/ BiodivERsA program (BiodivERsA-FACCE2014-91). Coordinator of the Portuguese team.
• 2014-2016: O mel de Rosmaninho Português, um alimento funcional e fonte de nutracêuticos. Funded by the national beekeeping program (PAN 2014-2016). Researcher.
• 2013-2014: Phytochemical traps for bee health control. Funded by the National Science Foundation, FCT (PTDC /C VT-EPI/2473/2012). Researcher.
• 2010-2013: Patterns and processes of (neutral and adaptive) variation in the honey bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis) hybrid zone of the Iberian Peninsula: a population genetics approach integrating population genomics and landscape genetics. Funded by the National Science Foundation, FCT (PTDC/BIA-BEC/099640/2008). Coordinator.
• 2010-2011: Estudo da população de Tetrapediini (Hymenoptera:Apidae) no Recôncavo da Bahia. MCT/CNPq - 012/2010, Brazil. Consultant.
• 2010-2012: Consecuencias de la introducción de subespecies foráneas de Apis mellifera en la conservación de las abejas de las Islas Canarias. Fundación Séneca, Agencia Regional de Ciencia e Tecnología, Spain. Consultant.
• 2009-2010: Padrões geográficos de diversidade genética da abelha melífera em Portugal (continente e ilhas): a história contada pelo ADN mitocondrial. Funded by the national beekeeping program (PAN 2008-2010). Coordinator.
• 2007-2010: Woody biomass for energy: development of sustainable systems for providing production, regulation and conservation goods and services. Funded by the National Science Foundation, FCT (PTDC/AGR-CFL/64500/2006). Researcher.
• 2006-2007: “Resolving Mammalian Phylogeny Using Genomic and Morphological Approaches”. National Science Foundation, S070025 ATOL Collaborative Research. Texas A&M University, Purdue University, EUA. Summer collaboration (visiting scholar) in 2006 and 2007.
• 1999-2003: Spatial and Temporal Genetic Structure of Feral Honey Bees in Coastal Prairies of south Texas: Impact of Africanization. Project 8451 of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Texas Legislative Initiative. Researcher.