Inês Pereira holds a BSc and an MSc in Biomedical Science from Coventry University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Science at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IHMT-NOVA). During her Master’s studies, she was awarded the Silver Leadership Award, completed a CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice, and obtained certification in "The Foundations of Mentoring". Her main research interests include antimicrobial resistance, efflux mechanisms, drug repurposing, and sexually transmitted infections. Her PhD research aims to enhance the treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae through drug repurposing, specifically by identifying antibiotic adjuvants using in silico approaches. In particular, the selected drug candidates target efflux systems in N. gonorrhoeae as a novel approach against antimicrobial resistance. She is co-author of a peer-reviewed published article and presented a poster as first author at the 2nd Egas Moniz One Health Symposium, based on her internship work at IHMT-NOVA. Within the scope of her PhD project, she has presented a poster at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Multidrug Efflux Systems and Microbiotec'25, and has an accepted abstract for poster presentation at ESCMID Global 2026. Recently, she has also submitted a manuscript to Antibiotics peer-reviewed journal. Inês is a member of the PRIME (Pathogen Resistance, Infection and Molecular Epidemiology) group at the Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), as well as the Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia (SPM). Inês is actively involved in science communication and outreach, including participations in European Researchers' Night, IHMT Open Day and Master's fairs. She has also contributed to student integration initiatives through mentoring programmes at both her current and previous institutions.