Marta Filipa Simões

Marta Filipa Simões is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Science (SKLPlanets), at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), in China. She is a microbiologist and has worked with a myriad of microorganisms (mycobacteria, environmental and clinical bacteria, mycobacteriophages and filamentous fungi) in several different countries (UK, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, and China). Her research is centred on astrobiology and astromycology, and focuses on: fungal ecology and biodiversity in environmental analogues to outer-space conditions, fungal development under simulated outer-space conditions, bioprospection and application of filamentous fungi, and fungal growth containment (in the context of planetary protection) and exploitation to human needs in outer-space similar conditions.