The EPB is looking forward to host a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Daniela Portella Sampaio, at the EPB Secretariat next year.
Daniela Portella Sampaio with a PhD in International Relations (Universidade de São Paulo) in 2017, Daniela has been researching the Antarctic Treaty since 2011, developing her expertise in environmental governance. After an internship at the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat in 2015, she has been working as a Secretariat Advisor for Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, supporting decision making in diplomatic meetings. In late 2019, she concluded a Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds, being a finalist at the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Awards in the category ‘Scientific Careers for Policy-Making’. In 2021, she was a Research Associate at the Bielefeld University, working in the project The Worldviews of Ice - Constructions of the Arctic at the Science/Politics Interface (funded by the DFG). Currently, she is in her second Marie Curie Research Fellowship, at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, with the project: A look inside: domestic features and the implementation of human and environmental risk measures in European Antarctic Treaty Parties (POLARPOL).
On 6th December 2023, Dr. Portella Sampaio will participate in the Arctic Centre's (University of Groningen) Seminar: The Role of States in the Legal Protection of Antarctica with a presentation A look inside: domestic features and the implementation of human and environmental risk measures in European Antarctic Treaty Parties. You can follow the Seminar in-person or online: https://www.rug.nl/research/arctisch-centrum/news/arctic-centre-seminar?fbclid=IwAR3vbcKjGhUTXQovonDV4z5cbCIgWEvDhxJ_eqapAvdF5Bwc3_aGa4kvj5Q
Besides the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, five PhD fellows funded by Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) will be visiting the EPB through the next four years. Learn more about the five PhD grants here: https://www.europeanpolarboard.org/news-events/news/article/news/call-for-scholarships-on-preservation-and-restoration-of-polar-marine-and-coastal-ecosystems-and-bio/