Nuno Vasco Rodrigues

Currently I work as Assistant Curator at Oceanário de Lisboa and researcher at MARE IPLeiria and before I’ve worked as Science Officer at Flying Sharks and external consultant of Marine Biodiversity for the Task Group for the Extension of the Portuguese Continental Platform. I'm involved in several projects worldwide focusing mainly on the ecology of marine communities with special interest on fish. I've published scientific papers on areas like biogeography, animal behaviour, animal collections, husbandry and transport and the effect of marine protected areas in coastal communities. I've also published two books about the marine fauna of Portugal and am currently working on a third one about the fish from São Tomé and Príncipe (Africa). I've started doing underwater photography 8 years ago and try to use it as far as possible as a tool in my work. Some of my photos have been published in exhibitions, newspapers, magazines and both national and international books.

In the past I did internships in Brazil where I've worked in communities of fish, corals and algae in areas impacted by tourist activities and in the U.S.A. at the New England Aquarium (Boston) as a Biologist/Diver of the Ocean tank, the main exhibit of this institution. My academic career began with a degree in Marine Biology and Biotechnology at the School of Marine Technology – Peniche, Portugal, and I got my master degree in the University of the Azores in 2009. Passionate by the sea and its creatures since childhood, I got my SCUBA certification in 2000 and never stopped since then. I am a PADI certified Assistant Instructor with approximately 1000 logged dives in various parts of the world from Africa, Mediterranean, Brasil and Fiji islands.