Professional background
• Since May 2024: Postdoctoral researcher, IHU Liryc, University of Bordeaux, Pessac (France)
• October 2017 – December 2023: PhD Student, Research work under the scope of the PhD thesis project, in the Advanced Therapeutics Group (PI: Lino Silva Ferreira, PhD), Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• December 2016 – September 2017: Research Technician, Biomaterials and Stem Cell-Based Therapeutics Laboratory (PI: Lino Silva Ferreira, PhD), Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Funding
• IHU Liryc’s internal grant (50k €) (2025) for the development of a human pluripotent stem cell platform in the institute.
• Travel grant (2022). 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI). Bari, Italy. June 8-10, 2022.
• PhD scholarship (2017) (4 years). FCT PhD scholarship reference: SFRH/BD/129991/2017.
• Research fellowship (2016). Research Fellowship in the project “CARDIOSTEM: Engineered cardiac tissues” (reference: MITP-TB/ECE/0013/2013).
