Samira D’Almeida

Samira D’Almeida holds a degree in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Biotechnology from the Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Engenharias, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. During her studies (2011-2014), she conducted research on fasciolosis, host-parasite interactions, and the use of medicinal plants and phytotherapeutic products as part of a scientific initiation scholarship at CCAE-UFES.

She earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Parasitology, from the NOVA Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her doctoral research (2015-2019) focused on molecular diagnosis in definitive and intermediate hosts of fasciolosis, supported by a fellowship from CNPq, Brazil. Samira also worked as a data analyst and report-writing technician at PhD Trials – Contract Research Organization, Portugal (2022-2024).

Her research interests include the study of molluscan hosts related to fasciolosis, with a focus on molecular diagnostics, epidemiology, bioecology, systematics, and control strategies. She is also interested in environmental monitoring and risk analysis of neglected tropical diseases. Currently, Samira works as a Natural Sciences tutor for 7th to 9th-grade students at Planeta Aprender and volunteers as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Parasitology, IHMT-NOVA.

The main areas of interest are Medical and Health Sciences, Parasitology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Malacology, with key completed projects:

1. Fasciolosis – development of diagnostic techniques applied in a definitive and intermediate host – Grant from 2015 to 2019 / PhD Student Fellow;
2. Infecção experimental em Lymnaea columella (Say, 1817) por Fasciola hepatica (Trematoda: Fasciolidae) Grant from 2013 to 2014 / Scientific Initiation Fellow.

1. D’Almeida SCG, Freitas DF, Carneiro MB, Camargo PF, Azevedo JC, Martins IVF. The population density of Lymnaea columella (Say, 1817) (Mollusca, Lymnaeidae), an intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758), in the Caparaó microregion, ES, Brazil. Braz J Biol. 2016;76(2):334-340. doi:10.1590/1519-6984.14314