Andreia Albuquerque-Wendt (AAW) studied (BSc) Applied Chemistry (Biotechnology) and later Biochemistry in the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL). Obtained her Master´s degree in Biomedical Sciences (Molecular Biology and International Tropical Medicine) in the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), UNL, specializing in the field of Leishmania parasites. She graduated (PhD) from the Medical School of Hannover in 2018 where she focused on glycan modifications of TSRs in C. elegans and Toxoplasma gondii proteins. As a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow AAW joined the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, where she first started exploring the function of transporter proteins in the biology of Leishmania parasites using CRISPR/Cas9. She then moved to Glasgow, as a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Welcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology (now Centre For Parasitology), University of Glasgow, continuing the functional dissection of the Leishmania transportome in this parasites' life cycle using BARseq strategies. Currently, AAW is a member of the Vector Borne Diseases group of the Global Health and Tropical Medicine Centre, hosted by IHMT-UNL and an advanced postdoc at the Institute of Cell Biology at the University of Bern.