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| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Animal Systematics and Morphology,Palaeontology |
| Keywords | deep sea, ocean, environmental reconstruction and monitoring, palaeontology, biodiversity |
| Honours and awards | 2019: First place in the competition for a Visiting Professor Position in the Graduate Program in Zoology, State University of Santa Cruz 2019: Top 9% of Publons users by merit, Publons.com 2018: First place in the competition for a Pos-doc position in the Graduate Program in Systematics and Evolution, Federal university of Rio Grande do Norte 2018: First place in the competition for a Visiting Professor Position in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Conservation, Federal University of the Semi-Arid Region 2018: Top 5 viewed article in Peer J subject area Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Marine Biology and Taxonomy, PeerJ 2016: Elected member of the Steering Committee of the "World Register of Marine Species" 2016: First place in the competition for a Pos-doc position in the Graduate Program in Systematics and Evolution, Federal university of Rio Grande do Norte 2015: Competitive LifeWatch workshop grant, World Register of Marine Species - LifeWatch 2014: Honoured by Prof. Dr Ricardo Meireles (Federal University of Bahia) with a new species name, Semicytherura brandaoae Meirelles & Keyser, 2014 (Marine Micropaleontology 112: 13-26), 2014: Top 5 downloaded papers in Journal of Micropalaeontology in January 2014, Journal of Micropalaeontology 2013: Top level (Nível A) Fellowship for Young Talents, CNPq 2013: Top 5 downloaded papers in Journal of Micropalaeontology in August 2013, Journal of Micropalaeontology 2013: Top 5 downloaded papers in Journal of Micropalaeontology in November, Journal of Micropalaeontology 2013: Top 5 downloaded papers in Journal of Micropalaeontology in September 2013 (second place: Brandao & Yasuhara), Journal of Micropalaeontology 2012: Competitive Lifewatch Grant, World Register of Marine Species 2012: Most Read Article in Current Biology (4.12.2012): Appertals et al., 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity, Current Biology 2010: Encyclopedia of Life Rubenstein Fellowship, Encyclopedia of Life 2010: Second Prize [for study on deep-sea life], Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar), Census of Marine Life (CoML) 2009: Grade 1,0 (magna cum lauda) in the PhD thesis, Universitaet Hamburg 2009: Honoured by Prof. Dr Moriaki Yasuhara (Hong Kong University) with a new species name, Aversovalva brandaoae Yasuhara et al., 2009 (Deep-Sea Ostracods from the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean during the Last 370,000 Years. Journal of Paleontology, 83(6): 914–930 2005: SCAR Award Fellowship scheme 2005/2006, Scientific Commettee on Antarctic Research 2005: Sylvester-Bradley Award for the Best Student Oral Presentation, The International Research Group on Ostracoda |
Current contact address
| Country | Brazil |
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| City | Serra Talhada |
| Institution | Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt | Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Pedro Martinez Arbizu | DZMB - Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Wilhelmshaven |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/08/2010 |
Program(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2013 | D Janussen, Simone Nunes Brandão, T Cedhagen, F Hauquier, C Havermans, K Jörger, F Lejzerowicz, A Meyer-Löbbecke, S Schnurr, E Schwabe, M Vortkamp, L Würzberg, A Zinnkann, A Brandt: Agassiz Trawl (AGT) Deployments. In: Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, 2013, 115-117 |
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| 2013 | Simone Nunes Brandao: Benthic and Planktonic Ostracoda from the Southern Ocean: biodiversity and biogeography. In: Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, 2013, 104-105 |
| 2013 | A Brandt, L Würzberg, Simone Nunes Brandão, S Schnurr, A Meyer-Löbbecke, C Havermans, A Zinkann, K Jörger, E Schwabe, D Janussen, M Vortkamp: Biodiversity and Biogeography of Southern Ocean Macrofauna. In: Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, 2013, 87-90 |
| 2013 | Simone Nunes Brandao: Challenging cosmopolitanism in the deep-sea - The case of Cythere acanthoderma Brady, 1880 (Crustacea, Ostracoda). In: Revue de Micropaléontologie, 2013, 2-19 |
| 2013 | Simone Nunes Brandao, M Yasuhara: Challenging the deep-sea cosmopolitanism - Taxonomic re-evaluation and biogeography of Cythere dasyderma Brady, 1880 (Ostracoda). In: Journal of Micropaleontology, 2013, 109-122 |
| 2013 | Simone Nunes Brandao, J Sauer, I Schön: Circumantarctic distribution in Southern Ocean benthos? A genetic test using the genus Macroscapha (Crustacea, Ostracoda) as a model. In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2013, 1055-1069 |
| 2013 | S Kaiser, Simone Nunes Brandao, S Brix, et al: Pattern, process and vulnerability of Antarctic and Southern Ocean benthos - a decadal leap in knowledge and understanding. In: Marine Biology, 2013, 1-24 |
| 2013 | I Karanovic, Simone Nunes Brandao: Pseudopolycope andeepi sp. nov. from the deep Southern Ocean (Ostracoda, Cladocopina). In: Zootaxa, 2013, 123-135 |
| 2013 | Simone Nunes Brandao, M Yasuhara, T Irizuki, D Horne, The ostracod genus Trachyleberis and its type species. In: Marine Biodiversity, 2013, 363-405 |
| 2013 | M Yasuhara, G Hunt, H Okahashi, Simone Nunes Brandao: The Oxycythereis problem: taxonomy and palaeobiogeography of deep-sea ostracod genera Pennyella and Rugocythereis. In: Palaeontology, 2013, 1045-1080 |
| 2012 | Chavtur, V., Simone Nunes Brandao, Bashmanov, A.: New subgenus and four new species of Doloria (Myodocopina) marine benthic ostracods from the Southern Ocean. In: Zootaxa, 2012, 1-46 |
| 2012 | Ivana Karanovic, Simone Nunes Brandao: On the genus Thaumatoconcha Kornicker and Sohn (Halocyprida) with description of two new species from Southern Ocean deep sea. In: Helgoland Marine Research, 2012, 275-294 |
| 2012 | Ivana Karanovic, Simone Nunes Brandao: Review of the recent Polycopidae (Ostracoda, Cladocopina), with descriptions of nine new species, one new genus, and one new subgenus from the deep South Atlantic. In: Marine Biodiversity, 2012, 329-393 |
| 2012 | Ward Appeltans, Shane T. Ahyong, Gary Anderson, Martin V. Angel, Tom Artois, Nicolas Bailly, Roger Bamber, Anthony Barber, Ilse Bartsch, Annalisa Berta, Magdalena Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Phil Bock, Geoff Boxshall, Christopher B. Boyko, Simone Nunes Brandão, et al.: The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. In: Current Biology, 2012, 2189-2202 |
| 2011 | Claude De Broyer, Bruno Danis, Simone Nunes Brandao, et al.: How many species in the Southern Ocean? Towards a dynamic inventory of the Antarctic marine species . In: Deep-sea Research II, 2011, 5-17 |
| 2011 | Stefanie Kaiser, Huw J Griffiths, David K A Barnes, Simone Nunes Brandao, Angelika Brandt: Is there a distinct continental slope fauna in the Antarctic?. In: Deep-sea Research II, 2011, 91-104 |
| 2011 | Simone Nunes Brandao, Olinga Päplow: New species and occurrences of Bradleya Benson, 1972, Harleya Jellinek & Swanson, 2003 and Poseidonamicus Benson, 1972 (Ostracoda: Cytheroidea) from the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean. In: Journal of Micropaleontology, 2011, 141-166 |
| 2011 | David V Horne, Simone Nunes Brandao, Ian J. Slipper: The Platycopid Signal deciphered: responses of ostracod taxa to environmental change during the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event (Late Cretaceous) . In: Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 2011, 304-312 |
| 2010 | Simone Nunes Brandao: Macrocyprididae (Ostracoda) from the Southern Ocean: taxonomic revision, macroecological patterns, and biogeographical implications. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 567-672 |