Career

  • 2016 - 2019: Invited Assistant Reseacher (non-tenured track), Universidade do Minho
  • 2016 - 2018: Invited Assistant Reseacher (non-tenured track), Universidade do Minho
  • 2008 - 2014: Assistant Researcher (Non-Tenure Track), Universidade do Minho

Qualifications

  • 1979: PhD Thesis in Chemistry, University of Manchester, University of Manchester

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Since  2018: Member of the Editorial Board of "Scientific Reports"
  • Since  2014: Member of the Editorial Board of "Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change"
  • Since  2014: Member of the Editorial Board of "Current Opinion in Food Science"
  • 2012 - 2012: Member of the Editorial Board of "Open Enzyme Inhibition Journal"
  • 2008 - 2012: Member of the Editorial Board of "Current Enzyme Inhibition"
  • 2020 - 2023: Filamentous fungi and mycotoxins
  • 2016 - 2018: Novel identifications schemes for filamentous fungi using mycotoxin/antibiotic characters
  • 2014 - 2016: RITRAIN - Research Infrastructures Training Programme
  • 2009 - 2014: Novel identifications schemes for filamentous fungi using mycotoxin/antibiotic characters

Past Supervision of Researchers


Recent Publications

1
Climate refuges in Nigeria for oil palm in response to future climate and Fusarium wilt stresses
  • Plants, 12(4), 764, 2023
2
Future climate effects on yield and mortality of conventional versus modified oil palm in SE Asia
  • Plants, 12(12), 2236, 2023
3
Future climate effects on basal stem rot of conventional and modified oil palm in Indonesia and Thailand
  • Forests, 14(7), 1347, 2023
4
  • Paterson, R. Russell M.
Longitudinal trends of future suitable climate for conserving oil palm indicates refuges in tropical south-east Asia with comparisons to Africa and South America
  • Pacific Conservation Biology, 28(1), 57-67, 2022
5
Future scenarios for Fusarium wilt disease and mortality of oil palm in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, extrapolated to Malaysia and Indonesia
  • European Journal of Plant Pathology, 162, 105-117, 2022
6
Optimised and systematic suitable climate modelling confirms future longitudinal-trends for growing oil palm in Africa
  • Journal of Environmental Management, 300(113785), 2021
7
Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions
  • CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2(39), 2021
8
Current strategies and perspectives in detection and control of basal stem rot of oil palm
  • Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 28(5), 2840-2849, 2021
9
Longitudinal trends of future climate change and oil palm growth: empirical evidence for tropical Africa
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28, 21193-21203, 2021
10
A review of potential impacts of climate change on coffee cultivation and mycotoxigenic fungi
  • Microorganisms, 8(10), 1625, 2020
11
Depletion of Indonesian oil palm plantations implied from modeling oil palm mortality and Ganoderma boninense rot under future climate
  • AIMS Environmental Science, 7(5), 366-379, 2020
12
Oil palm survival under climate change in Kalimantan and alternative SE Asian palm oil countries with future basal stem rot assessments
  • Forest Pathology, 50(4), e12604, 2020
13
Future scenarios for oil palm mortality and infection by Phytophthora palmivora in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, extrapolated to Malaysia and Indonesia
  • Phytoparasitica, 48, 513-523, 2020
14
Oil palm survival under climate change in Malaysia with future basal stem rot assessments
  • Forest Pathology, 50(6), e12641, 2020
15
Penicillium tunisiense sp. nov., a novel species of Penicillium section Ramosa discovered from Tunisian orchard apples
  • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68(10), 3217-3225, 2018
16
Predominant mycotoxins, mycotoxigenic fungi and climate change related to wine
  • Food Research International, 103, 478-491, 2018
17
Climate change affecting oil palm agronomy, and oil palm cultivation increasing climate change, require amelioration
  • Ecology and Evolution, 8(1), 452-461, 2018
18
Filamentous fungal human pathogens from food emphasising Aspergillus, Fusarium and Mucor
  • Microorganisms, 5(44), 1-9, 2017
19
World climate suitability projections to 2050 and 2100 for growing oil palm
  • Journal of Agricultural Science, 155(5), 689-702, 2017
20
Microbiology managers: Managerial training in the RItrain project
  • Trends in Microbiology, 25(6), 425-428, 2017
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