Conceição Calhau

She graduated in Nutrition from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto (FCNAUP), and began her career at the Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the Faculty of Medicine of the same university (FMUP) in 1996, where she has taught Biochemistry, Nutrition and Food Toxicology. In 2002, she earned her Doctorate from FMUP, and in 2010, she took her public Habilitation Examination (Agregação) in the field of Metabolism at the same institution.

Currently, Conceição Calhau is a Faculty member of the NOVA Medical School (NSM) – Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon, as Full Professor. She is also the founder and coordinator of the recently created Graduate Degree in Nutrition Sciences of the NMS.

Her main research interests focused on polyphenols, endocrine disruptors, metabolic dysfunction, and more recently, on iodine nutritional state monitoring in school age children and pregnant women, which has led her to participate in several research projects with national and European funds, involving the Agriculture and Food Industry.

She has more than 200 indexed scientific articles.