CATIA VANESSA
MAIO GONÇALVES

Cátia Gonçalves holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering (Doctor Europeus) from the University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal (2011), a Master degree in Geosciences with specialization in Environment and Planning (2006) and a degree on Geology (2002) from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She works in the Atmospheric Sciences area and her research interests include air quality, atmospheric pollution, atmospheric aerosols, organic/inorganic tracers, source apportionment, health effects. She also has experience with life cycle thinking tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA). After the PhD, C. Gonçalves was awarded with two national (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - FCT) and one international (Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nivel superior - CAPES/Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq) postdoctoral grants. She has participated in several national and international funded projects, for instance: as Assistant Researcher in Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) of University of Aveiro, Portugal and team member of SOPRO - Chemical and toxicological source profiling of particulate matter in urban air (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029574) and collaborated with other projects such as: 1) ISY-AIR - An Integrated System for Urban Scale Air Quality Assessment and Forecast (MIT-EXPL/IRA/0023/2017), University of Coimbra, Portugal and 2) CHARCLEAN - Technological upgrading of charcoal kilns to make them clean and resource efficient targeting a fire resilient economy in Portuguese rural areas (PCIF/GVB/0179/2017), University of Aveiro, Portugal. In December 2021 she started working as researcher in the Atmospheric Environment Group, Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, at the University of León (Spain) through María Zambrano Grants programme, collaborating on projects such as: 1) Contaminación atmosférica por carbono negro procedente de la combustión de carbón: uso del etalómetro para estimar su contribución y cuantificar el lavado por la lluvia (LE025P20) and 2) AEROHEALTH - Relación entre el bioaerosol y otros contaminantes: efectos sobre las respuestas alérgicas en diferentes escenarios atmosféricos. Her main responsibility was to conduct an extensive sampling campaign to characterise the different types of emissions that affect the city of León in the different seasons of the year. Gonçalves, C. has published 32 papers in ISI-indexed journals with 1205 citations and a h-index of 18 (by Scopus). These publications include 77 different co-authors from multiple institutions which evidences the quality and extension of her research network. Some of her papers are in the list of most downloaded or cited articles of Atmospheric Research and Atmospheric Environment (both Elsevier). One paper was awarded in EGU2013 as one of the most cited in 2010-2011 of Atmospheric Environment. Also, she was awarded by RICTA2013 (Iberian Aerosol Meeting) for the best PhD thesis in 2011-2012. Additionally, she has collaborated in two book chapters as co-author and presented more than 58 works in peer-reviewed conferences. She co-supervised three LSc/BSc students (Campinas University, Brazil) and two MSc theses (UA, Portugal). She was also involved in the organization of three workshops for science diffusion within the 'Expociencia Unileón' and the European Researchers Night. She was Guest Editor of Special Issue "Chemical Composition and Toxicology of Indoor Particulate Matter" from Atmosphere an Open Access Journal by MDPI. In the last years, she has been acting as a regular reviewer in some SCI journals (Atmospheric Environment, Atmospheric Research, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric pollution research, Air quality, atmosphere & health, Energies).