Seena Sahadevan 
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
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Dr. Seena is a freshwater ecologist with 17 years of experience. Her scientific activity revolves around the evaluation of the impacts of anthropogenic pollution and environmental changes on aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, assessing the risks associated with emerging contaminants (such as nanoplastics) at various levels of biological organization (from communities to cells) and development and application of molecular tools to assess biodiversity. She did her Ph.D. in Biosciences, at Mangalore University, India, in 2005. She was a postdoc in Canada (2005 -2007), at Mount Allison University and an auxiliary investigator (2008 -2013), at the Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), University of Minho (UM), Portugal. As a part of a transnational program between Portugal and Germany, she also did research at Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg and Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ (Germany) in 2011. She was a scientist at CBMA, UM (2013 -2015). She shifted to IMAR as a postdoc (2015-2019), the University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal. Currently, she is an investigator at MARE, UC.
Research Interests
Nanoplastics, Toxicity, Ecosystem functioning, Aquatic fungi, ROS, Cellular targets, Leaf litter decomposition, Rivers and streams
