I graduated in Bioengineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) with specialization in Molecular Biotechnology, in 2020. As a Master student, I worked at i3S- Intituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde where I developed my Master thesis on Konjac photocrosslinked hydrogels, for in vitro 3D cell culture. For the last two years, I have been working in the Biofilm Engineering Laboratory (BEL) of LEPABE (Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environmental, Biotechnology and Energy) as Research Fellow (developing microparticles with antimicrobial properties) under the scope of PRESAGE – “Potential of decentralized wastewater treatment for preventing the spread of antibiotic resistance”, European project. Throughout my short scientific career, I have published 2 peer-reviewed papers (all of them as first author) and participated in an international conference. Recently, I was at the University of Santiago de Compostela to set-up and operate a reactor for the disinfection of wastewater generated in an office building at Vigo (assessing its effects on pathogen inactivation and organic micropollutants). At the begging of this year, I became enrolled on the Ph.D. program of Chemical and Biological Engineering at FEUP.