Academic qualification:
BSc Biomedical Science degree (2008) at ISAVE - Instituto Superior de Saúde do Alto Ave
Master of Molecular and Cellular Biology (2012) at Aveiro University
1st year PhD in Public Health (2014) at Porto University - Faculty of Medicine

Main Research Areas:
Laboratory animals research, validation and optimization of laboratory methodologies, study of compounds that cause endocrine disruption, their mechanisms of action, and their implications on the ecosystem;
Health research, daily evaluation and organization a cohort study, database management, health demographic surveillance data in underdeveloped countries, team supervision and training. Epidemiology research in communicable and non-communicable diseases;
Chemistry and chromatography research field.

Current position in the institution:
Research fellow at "SMARTWINE - Smarter wine fermentations: integrating Omics-tools for development of novel mixed-starter cultures for tailor-made wine production" PTDC/AGR-TEC/3315/2014 - Faculty of Biotechnology of the Catholic University, Portugal

Important functions
Quantification of volatile compounds in wine samples by gas chromatography (GC-MS; GC-FID).

Publications:

Quantitative modelling of hip fracture trends in 14 European countries: testing variations of a shared reversal over time.
Scientific Reports
2017-06 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03847-x
PMC: PMC5473829
PMID: 28623255

Bisphenol A migration from plastic materials: Direct insight of ecotoxicity in Daphnia magna
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
2013 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1614-0
 

Researcher Center

Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF)

Academic CV