I am a researcher and aspiring PhD candidate with strong foundations in physics and astrophysics, and professional experience in software development, data analysis and project management. Currently I am a Research Trainee in the Università degli Studi di Padova (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei") and Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, with professor Diego Bossini (ORCID 0000-0002-9480-8400) as my supervisor. We are studying the impact of incorporating the chemical abundances of host stars in the derivation of their fundamental properties using the Inference Procedure and PARAM code (https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20065105 ). Given the importance of astro-informatics in present day astrophysics and my interest in data analysis and software, I have worked for DATAWISE (https://datawise.pt/) as a Software Programmer in the last year, where I developed and maintained custom software solutions, contributing to three main projects (check my GitHub account for more details): a news scrapping and filtering webservice for the tech and tourism industries; a webservice for scrapping and filtering procurement announcements from the Portuguese Diário da República; and the development of a fleet management webservice. My work involved using Python (pandas, scikit-learn, requests, etc.), SQL, Microsoft Azure services (DBs, VMs, etc.), Gemini/OpenAI APIs and CLI, git/GitHub, and Linux terminal/WSL. In the meantime I also worked as an operator, as I was partially responsible for the preparation of meetings with clients, writing and discussion of business proposals, and research for new solutions and software ideas for projects and products. After graduating, my first job was a short-term, part-time position as an assistant at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (while I was trying to find funding to continue my studies). Both my Master's degree in Astrophysics and Instrumentation for Space and Bachelor's degree in Physics with minor in Sciences of the Space were obtained in the University of Coimbra (Department of Physics). My master thesis on the dynamic evolution of compact planetary systems was developed under the guidance of professor Alexandre Correia (ORCID 0000-0002-8946-8579), whereas the research was carried out in the Centre for Physics of the University of Coimbra. During my studies I have participated in 2 thematic schools, SAG11 and Habitability in the Solar System and beyond, and made 2 public presentations, a seminar on the introduction to my thesis and a white paper on life detection on Enceladus.