I am a PhD student of Theoretical Biochemistry, currently studying the biophysical impact of the accurate description of the mitochondrial electrochemical gradient in the proton pumping function of Cytochrome C Oxidase. I have a BSc. degree in Biochemistry and a MSc. in Biochemistry and Biomedicine from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, finished with the grades of 13/20 and 18/20, respectively. Midway into my Bachelor¿s degree (in 2017), I joined the Molecular Modelling and Simulation group, now the Machuqueiro Lab ( Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute/BioISI), where I was involved in two projects that yielded my first scientific poster presentation entitled ¿pH-dependent permeability of outer membrane protein G: an in silico study¿ (in 2018) and a publication entitled ¿Improved GROMOS 54A7 Charge Sets for Phosphorylated Tyr, Ser, and Thr to Deal with pH-Dependent Binding Phenomena¿ in J. Chem. Theory Comput. (in 2020; 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c0052). During my Master¿s degree I was the student representative, being involved in the organization of the annual event that showcases the preliminary results of student¿s research. I received a grant to work on my dissertation project, on evaluating the biophysical profile of metallodrug delivery systems. With this work, I learned a great deal about Molecular Dynamics and other computational techniques like Umbrella Sampling scheme implementation, Quantum Mechanics, and membrane permeability calculations, receiving a 20/20 grade on my thesis discussion. The results of my thesis work were presented at multiple conferences, namely at Encontro de Jovens Investigadores de Biologia Computacional Estrutural (2021), 2nd Chem & Biochem Students Meeting (2022) and 3D-BIOINFO-PT Annual Meeting (2022) as posters; at Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry (2023) as a Single Figure Presentation (SPF); and at BioData.pt Talks - 3D BioTalks (2023) and Bioinformatics Open Days as oral presentations. Additionally, due to the integration of my thesis work in a larger research project, there were frequent report meetings where I also presented preliminary results for the other contributing researchers. More recently, I was heavily involved in a project showcasing the potential of the in-house analysis tool MembIT, which led to a poster presentation at 3D-BIOINFO-PT Annual Meeting (2022) and a SPF at Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry (2023). This culminated in the publication of a scientific paper entitled ¿MembIT - a tool to calculate solute membrane insertions and deformations in molecular dynamics simulations¿ in J. Comput. Biophys. Chem. (10.1142/S2737416523500254) for which I am co-first author. Member of the Portuguese Society of Biophysics (SPB) since 2024.