Priscila Ortega

Graduated (2009) and Bachelor in Biological Sciences at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (São Paulo, in 2010), with a master's degree (2012) and doctorate (in 2016), in Physiology at the Institute of Biosciences - IB / USP São Paulo. She has a postdoctoral degree in ecotoxicology (FAPESP-2021). In 2011 she completed an internship, supervised by Professor Gregory Ahearn, at the University of North of Florida, United States. From 2016 to 2017 she was a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI, Perú), teaching the Marine Bioindicators course. In the same period, she was a Contract Professor at the Metropolitan University of Santos (UNIMES), responsible for the subjects of Plant Physiology, Plant Morphology, Science Teaching and Environmental Management. From 2018 to 2019 she completed a postdoctoral degree in ecotoxicology at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Maryland, United States. She worked in the following lines of research: cell separation and viability, metal transport in marine invertebrate cells, ecotoxicology, exposure of animals to contaminants. Currently, she is a teacher in the basic education network, working mainly in the development of scientific initiation projects. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)