Joana Madeira Hancock defende a tese "The sea turtles of São Tomé and Príncipe: Ecology, genetics and current status of distinct species nesting on an oceanic archipelago".

Luís Filipe Rodrigues Batista defende a tese "Structure and tectonics of the crust and Moho discontinuity of the Gloria Fault and Terceira Rift (S. Miguel) along the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary".

David García-García defende a tese "Schur Averages in Random Matrix Ensembles".

André Filipe Pereira Rodrigues defende a tese "Human-powered smartphone assistance for blind people".

Joana Maria dos Reis Franco Cruz defende a tese "Copepod communities and secondary production in Portuguese coastal waters".

Vanessa Sofia Alegria Mendonça defende a tese "Functioning of coastal food webs - intertidal rock pools as a case-study".

Marta Andreia Duarte Dias defende a tese "Vulnerability of reef-building corals towards global change".

Provas de Doutoramento - Catarina Marques Madruga.

Tema da tese e alvo de discussão oral: "Taxonomy and Empire. Zoogeographical research on Portuguese Africa, 1862-1881".

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Cesária da Conceição Baessa Moreira Gomes defende a tese "Climate change impacts on island coastal evolution: the case of Boa Vista (Cabo Verde)".

Niccolò Rossi defende a tese "Tackling the molecular basis of lipid metabolism: from candidate genes testing in a disease cohort to multi-omics approaches in unselected populations".