Full Professor and currently Rector of the University of Namibe, Carmen Ivelise Van-Dúnem do Sacramento Neto dos Santos has a degree in Biology since 1988 from the Faculty of Sciences of the Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola.
PhD in Marine Biology and Aquaculture from the University of Lisbon, Portugal in 2007.
Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the Agostinho Neto University, where he was responsible for the Department of Biology between January 1991 and February 1996, and Researcher at the Oceanography Center of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon within the scope of his doctoral thesis work.