Tatiana Catarino graduated in Biology at the University of coimbra (UC) in 2002 (educational) and 2004 (scientific) and completed her doctoral degree in Cellular Biology at the University of Coimbra under the supervision of Professor Ana Luisa Carvalho, at the 25th of May 2012. During her academic journey, Tatiana developed a profound interest in Neuroscience and Cell Biology, focusing on synapse biology processes and their disruptions in neurological disorders. Her Ph.D. research delved into the role of cortactin acetylation in the regulation of synapse composition, resulting in a significant first-author publication. As a post-doctoral role, she explored the modulation of AMPA receptors by ghrelin. To address these questions, she specialized and used a combination of techniques like primary cultures, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and imaging (fluorescence and confocal microscopy followed by quantitative immunofluorescence analysis). During her scientific research Tatiana Catarino has been able to be part of large and multidisciplinary teams, which allowed her to contact with different cultures and points of view. She was also involved in the supervision of several young students as well as in project writing, activities that help developing personal skills such as team work, organizational, leadership and communication skills. In 2017, Tatiana Catarino joined the highly skilled and multidisciplinary scientific MICC team at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (MICC-CNC). As a post-doctoral fellow of the MICC team, she has been instrumental in training users to operate confocal, and epifluorescence microscopes and helping on implementation of advanced imaging techniques, as well as on the design of robust image analysis protocols. Her technical support extends to external academic units interested in specific technologies like the Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) technology present in our unit (MICC), which led to a notable LCM consultancy project in a prestigious company in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 2018. Tatiana Catarino is actively involved in the organization of advanced courses that provide the PhD and Master students with the fundamentals of light microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, live cell imaging, and specific LM imaging methodologies, applied to Biomedicine, in the scope of Masters and PhD training courses. Since 2022, she has held the position of Research Infrastructure Specialist (Qualification Level 8 - Doctorate) at the Microscopy Imaging Center of Coimbra (MICC). Tatiana Catarino has authored 4 articles in journals and received 1 award and/or honors.