I am currently a Researcher at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, working in the team ‘Local Adaptation in Drosophila’ - headed by Prof. Margarida Matos - of the Evolutionary Ecology research group of cE3c. My main research focus at present is understanding the process of thermal adaptation. My research approach uses Drosophila as a model organism to address real-time evolution processes during adaptation to new thermal environments. I was the Principal investigator of an FCT research project, ADAPTCLIMWARM (October 2018-March 2022), that studied the real-time evolution of populations under a scenario of climate change. This project addressed how historically differentiated Drosophila subobscura populations adapt to increasingly warmer and variable environments (under controlled laboratory conditions) by analysing evolutionary changes at different levels of biological organization such as the phenotype, karyotype and genotype. I am currently involved in an International Research Network (European Thermal Fertility Network) that addresses the impact of temperature (and other abiotic stressors) on animal fertility. My current research is driven by four overarching objectives: 1) Understanding the patterns of adaptation to climate change at the phenotypic and molecular level; 2) Unraveling the genomic and transcriptomic changes that occur during adaptation to new environments; 3) Addressing the role of History and Selection and the impact of such forces on the repeatability of Adaptive Evolution at both the phenotypic and genomic levels; 4) Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms underlying clinal variation, namely of chromosomal inversions. I also collaborate with several colleagues working on Population and Evolutionary Genetics, Evolutionary Ecology and Experimental Evolution: in particular Mauro Santos (Univ. Autonoma Barcelona), Marta Pascual (Univ Barcelona) and Torsten Kristensen (Aalborg University). These collaborations have resulted in several publications throughout the years.