I work as Project Officer in planning, promoting and drafting International and National institutional Projects, and supporting multidisciplinary applications to Horizon Europe and other Funding Programmes and Agencies.

Formerly, I had a scientific research career in the areas of population genetics and molecular ecology, having worked on: i) vector-borne diseases (dengue and malaria) ii) conservation genetics of endangered species.

I have co-authored more than 100 works including 5 book chapters and 28 papers in international peer reviewed journals, which received more than 1100 citations, providing an index h=17, i10=21 (https://bit.ly/2Ghh6qL). I had three projects funded as Principal Investigator in competitive calls and participated in 24 research projects, 11 of which international (https://bit.ly/2SzJ9Ym).

I completed a PhD in Evolutionary Biology in 2007 at the University of Lisbon (Visiting PhD student at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de Genève, Switzeland). Since then, I was an invited visiting scholar at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (USA, 2008), Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute (Ghana, 2009) and Universidade Estadual de S. Paulo (Brazil, 2012).

I was awarded one prize, four fellowships and eight travel grants. This allowed me to develop a wide network of 11 research teams around the world (Europe, North and South America and Africa). Moreover, I gained laboratory and data analysis expertise, management skills and field experience with several study objects (namely birds, fish, bats and insects).

I have supervised three MSc students, five graduate students, seven undergraduate students, and trained 14 national and international researchers (including PhD students and Post-Docs) in laboratory work and data analysis.

I have lectured in 2 PhD and 1 MSc programs and capacity building events in several Universities (in Portugal, Brazil and India).

I have been invited as expert reviewer for the European Comission (COST and MSC Actions),  editor in 3 international journals and reviewer for 16.