Carina I. C. Reishttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-8395,^1,* Maria João Coimbra-Doreshttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8495-5995,^1,** Maria Teresa Rebelohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-2195,^1,*** Mafalda S. Faria<sup>2,****

1</sup>aCentre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Scien
²bNational Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science, Lisbon, Portugal and Institute of Health

^*Carina I. C. Reis is an Integrated Researcher at the Department of Animal Biology and Centre for Environment and Marine Studies, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has two years of research experience and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Biology. Since 2005 she has also been a Criminalistics Investigator in Criminal Investigation Direction in the Republican National Guard, where she has published six forensic science and security-related articles.
^**Maria João Coimbra-Dores is an Integrated Researcher at the Department of Animal Biology and Centre for Environment and Marine Studies, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has three years of research experience and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Environmental Biology and Health. She has published five research papers.
^***Maria Teresa Rebelo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Animal Biology and an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she carries out research on forensic entomology and integrated pest management, with emphasis on biological control. She has 29 years of research experience and has published seven book chapters and 37 papers in peer-review international journals, participated in 11 projects and supervised 64 master theses. Currently, she has two post-doctorate students, five PhD students and 12 MSc students.
^****Mafalda S. Faria has a batchelor's degree in biology, master's in ecology and a PhD in ecotoxicology. She was a post-doctoral researcher in forensic palynology and undertook research in several projects, including in international programes including Functional tools for assessing ecological water quality, Integrated assessment tools to gauge functional status within freshwater ecosystems, and Recovery, conservation and management of species and natural habitats of community interest in the central coast of Portugal. She also is a visiting professor in the forensic and criminal sciences degree programme and in the international forensic science master's ‘Erasmus Mundus' in the Institute of Health Sciences Egas Moniz.