Virgílio Alexandre da Silva Marques Bento defende a tese "The use of remotely sensed Land Surface Temperature for climate monitoring".

Victor Manuel Meneses Barbosa defende a tese "Bus driver rostering by hybrid methods based on column generation".

Marta Alexandra Arandas dos Santos defende a tese "Evolutionary lessons from Drosophila melanogaster for colonization. How do history, selection and effective population size shape evolution?".

Luísa Andrade e Sousa Lamas defende a tese "Cross-shelf flow forced by daily variable winds in the presence of a cape".

Applications are invited for 15 PhD positions (“Early Stage Researchers”) to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network within the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission.

Rui Pedro Gonçalves de Deus defende a tese "Estimating the Efficacy of Mass Rescue Operations in Ocean Areas with Vehicle Routing Models and Heuristics".

João Faria de Oliveira Santos defende a tese "Ecological, biological and molecular considerations towards the sustainable exploitation of limpets in Macaronesia (NE-Atlantic)".

Sofia Nunes Lorena Ermida defende a tese "Harmonization of remote sensing land surface products: correction of clear-sky bias and characterization of directional effects".

Cibelle Neiva Cavalcanti Mariano da Costa defende a tese "Biochemical and molecular characterisation of the dyslipidaemia in Portugal".