During my Ph.D. I acquired a strong background in electrophysiology and imaging techniques. During the final period of my Ph.D., I was able to implement a new research project, imaging pre and post-synaptic alteration during plasticity, and train a PhD student who concluded the project. During my post-doctoral training, I pursued the hypothesis that long-term maintenance of synaptic plasticity is dependent on a transient modulation of synaptic actin cytoskeleton. I secured independent funding that allowed me to implement extracellular and patch-clamp recordings in brain slices, two techniques that were not available at the host institution. My role included conceiving the project, securing funding, acquiring all the equipment, establishing the laboratory, and conducting the experiments. This project resulted in two single-author publications. Additionally, I participated in several courses of the PhD program at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and the Champalimaud Foundation Since 2013, I transitioned to an independent position as a Research Fellow and I was offered a position as principal investigator in June 2015. During my training in neuroscience, I became exceedingly interested in the neurophysiological modifications that occur in neurological and psychiatric diseases. From 2006-2007, I participated in an exploratory clinical project where I had my first contact with psychiatric patients. Above all, this project allowed me to obtain training in designing behavioral tasks and recordings of EEG-based evoked potentials in control and patient groups. This has also motivated me to obtain further training in clinical research. To this end, I enrolled in the Medical School in 2006 and obtained a medical degree in 2012. I have also practiced medicine for two years, the first year as a general medicine resident and the second year as a psychiatry resident. I am strongly convinced that understanding how psychiatric diseases develop will require a multi-disciplinary approach combining basic with clinical research. Having acquired practical knowledge both in neuroscience basic research and clinical practice, I am in a privileged position to bridge these two approaches. During the last 7 years, I supervised three master students, Ana Drumond (2015/17, Master in Neuroscience, completed) and Marina Nunes (2017/19, Master in Neuroscience, completed), Cristina Marcut (2018/2020, Master in Molecular Biology and Genetics, completed), one PhD student (Natália Madeira, PhD in Biomedicine, 2023) and 10 undergraduate students, including 3 medical students and one Psychiatric resident. I lectured in the Neuroscience module of the Master's Degree in Biomedicine at NOVA Medical School and I was an invited assistant professor of the Neuroscience module of the undergraduate medical degree at NOVA Medical school from 2017 to 2022. I also taught as an invited assistant professor of anatomy and physiology at the Health School, IPL, Lisbon, from 2019 to 2023. In 2023, I joined the i3S research institute as a principal researcher. My group is devoted to understanding how memories evolve, aiming at a comprehensive model of memory acquisition and update. I am a mother of two, with career breaks for maternity leave from June to October 2010 and February to June 2014.