Rhaul de Oliveira

Rhaul de Oliveira is a biologist originally from Goiás, Brazil, with an extensive academic background. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília, where he studied the toxicity of cyanotoxins in fish (2008). Later, he completed his Master's degree in Toxicology and Ecotoxicology at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he developed a dissertation on the use of zebrafish as a tool for ecotoxicity assessment (2009). To further his academic training, Rhaul de Oliveira completed his PhD in Applied Biology and Biociences at the University of Aveiro, which included internships at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand (2013) and a partnership with Wageningen University in the Netherlands (2014). In addition, he has completed five postdoctoral fellowships, including one at the University of Brasília (2017) focused on the application of nanostructured compounds for the treatment of water contaminated with psychiatric drugs to mitigate impacts on aquatic fauna. Another postdoctoral fellowship was carried out at the University of São Paulo (2018) on the pesticides used to combat the mosquito vector of arboviruses such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever. Rhaul completed his third postdoctoral fellowship at UNICAMP (2019), which focused on the environmental impacts of pesticide use in sugarcane plantations and high-intensity pastures and their impacts on aquatic biodiversity. He also completed a postdoctoral internship at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ (2020-2021) focusing on the impact of pesticide mixtures on aquatic organisms of different trophic levels. Finally, he completed his last postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais evaluating the impacts of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fish fauna of the Paraopeba River. Rhaul has extensive experience in the impacts of pollution on biodiversity and has published dozens of articles in national and international journals. Currently, he is a substitute professor at the Federal Institute of Northern Minas - Arinos campus, teaching courses in Biology, Basic Ecology, General Ecology, Biodiversity Management, among others. He conducts research focused on biodiversity conservation in the Amazon Basin through the monitoring of emerging pollutants and risk assessment for aquatic communities, and on the socio-biodiversity of the cerrado through the assessment of aquatic contamination in territories of quilombola communities and ecological parks adjacent to monoculture areas. Rhaul de Oliveira is an alternate member of the board of the Brazilian Society of Ecotoxicology (SBE) and a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC). In addition, he is part of the ECOS do Caminho Collective, where he contributes to the development of activities in the northwest of Minas Gerais, including O Caminho do Sertão (2015), the Advisory Council of CRESERTÃO (2016-2023), and the Sagarana de Cinema Show - CineBaru (2017-2023). Rhaul has a specialization in Griô Pedagogy, with a focus on innovative pedagogical practices in community and scientific education (2020). Currently, Rhaul is interested in conducting research focused on biodiversity conservation, environmental management, climate justice, and the construction of dialogic spaces with communities for the elaboration and sharing of knowledge, such as in the Sagarana Forum of Traditional Knowledge, Culture, and Climate Change (2022-2023). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)