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Summary

I am a MSCA PhD student at Laura Elo’s lab at the Medical Bioinformatics Centre – Turku Bioscience, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Elo and Dr. Sini Juntilla. My research focuses on optimizing and applying statistical methods for the integration and marker identification of single-cell data.

Academic Qualifications

  • P.G. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology – 24 ECTS
    Post-Graduation, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
    Sept 2017 – July 2018

  • M.Sc. Cell and Molecular Biology
    Master’s Degree, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
    Sept 2015 – Nov 2017

    • Thesis: Arctic microbiome and N-functions during the winter-spring transition
    • Supervisors: Dr. Catarina Magalhães, Dr. Pedro Duarte & Dr. Luís Torgo
    • Repository: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/110665
    • Final grade: 19/20 (grade B on the European grading scale)

  • B.Sc. Biology
    Bachelor’s Degree, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
    Sept 2012 – July 2015

    • Final grade: 15/20 (grade B on the European grading scale)

Previous Work Experience

  • Bioinformatics Unit at IGC
    Position: Bioinformatician
    Location: Oeiras, Portugal | Oct 2019 – Jul 2021

    • Supervision: Dr. Jingtao Lilue
    • Responsibilities: bioinformatic support, training, analysis and management of a high-performance computer
    • Work place: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

  • NANOSED Project
    Position: Research Fellow
    Location: Matosinhos, Portugal | Oct 2018 – Oct 2019

    • Project: NanoSed – Adsorption of metallic nanoparticles to estuarine sediments: implications for denitrification
    • Reference: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030131
    • Funded by National Science Foundation of Portugal
    • Supervision: Dr. Mafalda Baptista & Dr. Catarina Magalhães
    • Responsibilities: field sampling campaigns, chemical/molecular biology techniques, bioinformatics and statistical analyses
    • Work place: Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research – University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal

  • MarRisk Project
    Position: Research Grant (BI)
    Location: Matosinhos, Portugal | Nov 2017 – Sept 2018

    • Project: MarRisk – Coastal adaptation to climate change: understanding risks and increasing resilience
    • Reference: 0262_MARRISK_1_E
    • Supported financially by the EP Program – INTERREG V A Espanha Portugal (POCTEC), through the European Regional Development Fund
    • Supervision: Dr. Catarina Magalhães
    • Responsibilities: marine microbiome sampling, chemical/molecular biology techniques, bioinformatics and statistical analyses
    • Work place: Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research – University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal

Academic Merits

  • 2025-: Member of the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics
  • 2024: Chair of the “Single Cells 3” session at the European Conference on Computational Biology 2024, Turku
  • 2018-: Member of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology
  • 2017: Short-term scholarship award competition for young researchers 2016 - Phase 2 - under the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR) funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT)
  • 2015: School prize Doutor António Leitão due to the exceptional learning in the course unit Plant Anatomy and Physiology

International Mobility

  • Secondment in the laboratory of Dr. María Martínez (11/09-06/10/2023, IBM Research)
  • Secondment in the laboratory of Prof. Lucy Walker (27/06-08/07/2022, UCL)
  • International oceanographic campaign in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, Norway (12-17/07/2018)

Programming Skills