I concluded my master's degree in Human Biology and Environment at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in 2022, and the degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon, in 2020. During my academic path I had the opportunity to gain experience in several scientific areas including environmental toxicology, molecular biology, virology and infectious diseases. In the latter, I have developed and validated a methodology for the detection of resistance mutations to Hepatitis C treatment, which culminated in the writing of my master's thesis and my first scientific original article, published in Pathogens. I also collaborated with other authors in the writing of two more scientific articles related to Hepatitis B virus (submited to European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology) and human T-cell lymphotropic virus (type I) (published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses). From April 2023 to April 2024, I was a research fellow on a project financed by the European Union - Project GENEO (#101113460), at the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA), developing activities in the area of sexually transmitted infections, namely in a project of Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Type 1 (HIV-1) mother-to-child transmission, using NGS methodologies (Illumina and Oxford Nanopore (MinION)). During my path, I presented two oral communications (one distinguished with an honorable mention for best oral communication) and one poster. Recently, I was enrolled in two courses from the ECDC Virtual Academy (EVA) and started to work in the field of applied computational biology in UNIX environment, focusing on microbial genomics.