Olga Ameixa is an ecologist with a PhD in Biology, specialisation in Ecosystem Biology from the University of South Bohemia (CZ). Since 2023, she has been an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and the Department of Biology at the University of Aveiro (PT). In the past, worked as a researcher at the Global Change Research Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. During that period, she participated in several international and national projects (CZ).
Her research focuses on insect biodiversity and ecology, and its role in ecosystem services, particularly in response to environmental changes such as biological invasions and land use changes. She applies frameworks like CICES to evaluate and develop indicators of insect-mediated ecosystem services.
She has an extensive experience in biodiversity monitoring and over the past years has unravel several new invertebrate records for the Portuguese coast and some for Iberian Peninsula, in the Ria de Aveiro salt marsh area.
She has led and contributed to projects on nature-based solutions, including phytoremediation, biological control, pollination, and biomass production. She has been Principal Investigator in RESTORE (CNRS-FR), SUShI (FCT-PT), and REGREEN (PT), and a team member in PORBIOTA (LifeWatch PT node), LAGOONS (EU-FP7), and POLLINATE (FCT-PT).
Between 2016 and 2017, worked as Invited Assistant Professor of Entomology and Ecology at the University of Aveiro. Currently, teaches Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology, Urban ecology and supervises multiple PhD, MSc, and undergraduate students.
She is an active member of international research networks, serving as national delegate and working group leader in the COST Actions Insect-IMP and GIN-TONIC. From 2019 to 2022, she convened the IOBC/WPRS Working Group on Biological Control Agents. She also a member of the EKLIPSE Knowledge Coordination Body and contributes to the eLTER-PT Ria de Aveiro site. ORCID: 0000-0002-5422-1090
