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Porto, Pt

Porto, Portugal

• Provide expertise in scientific and technical matters in electrophysiology to internal and external collaborators;• Planned, organized, and executed a scientific educational workshop with 8 international students and researchers;• Implemented and managed a European-funded project (NEUROTWIN) in collaboration with 6 international research institutes.

Porto, Portugal

• Wrote and prepared 5 scientific papers and research progress reports; • Public speaking skills through scientific communications at national and international conferences; • Communicate results to project partners in internal meetings; • Built and maintained strong bi-directional scientific relationships with internal stakeholders and KOLs; • Managed resources & budget in 2 multidisciplinary projects; • Onboarding and technical training of new team members; • Delivered practical sessions on Neuroengineering Workshop; • Designed & implemented new protocols to raise scientific excellence;• Processed and analyzed complex research datasets;• Revised and evaluated the quality and integrity of scientific data;• Identified data gaps and gathered insights about research areas of interest to establish new collaborations;• Monitored surgical procedures in animals according to SOPs and wrote monitoring reports. Scientific/Technical keywords: Electrophysiological recordings; Neuroanatomy; Neuronal circuits; Pain; Migraine; Referred pain; Trigeminal nerve; Occipital nerve; Presynaptic Inhibition.

Porto, Portugal

• Managed deadlines and monitor progress from 3 different R&D projects, which resulted in 3 scientific publications; • Collaborated with cross-functional teams from the University of Uppsala and the University of Debrecen;• Communicated scientific data to internal and external stakeholders;• Writing scientific documents: research progress reports, research protocols, and manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication;• Developed visual materials to express the core findings of projects; • Collaborated in the preparation and submission of an approved national grant, leading to the renewal of funding;• Preparation of animal studies documentation and submission to the Regulatory Authority - DGAV; • Lab management including orders, lab organization, stock maintenance, and contact with suppliers.Scientific/Technical keywords: Electrophysiological recordings; Neuroanatomy; Endogenous opioid; Referred Pain; Somatic and visceral pain.

Braga, Portugal

• Optimization of bacteria cultures to increase biosurfactant productivity;• Engineered strategies to reduce the production cost of biosurfactants; • Evaluated the pharmacological potential of biosurfactants against pathogenic microorganisms;• Successfully fulfilled project goals resulting in 2 co-author publications.Scientific/technical keywords: Biosurfactants, production costs; low-cost subtracts; probiotic biosurfactants, antimicrobial agents, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Staphylococcus aureus; Escherichia coli.

Braga, Portugal

The project focused on the clinical effect of elevated glucocorticoids levels in utero and its impact leading to behavioural consequences such as increased vulnerability to develop neurological and psychiatric disorders;• Assessed the expression of dopamine receptors at the protein level by Western blot;• Performed molecular analysis of dopamine receptors by Real-Time PCR;• Evaluated the morphology of dopaminergic neurons;• Analyzed the data and reported the project results.

Specialization, Medical Affairs & Medical Marketing

• Clinical VS Medical Affairs Operations; • Medical Affairs in the Business Strategy; • Medical Marketing & Product Life Cycle Management.

Phd, Biomedical Sciences, General

PhD Thesis: Pre- and postsynaptic interactions between afferents supplying lamina I projection neurons in the lumbar and cervical spinal.

Master'S Degree, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Subjects studied: Bioentrepreneurship; Molecular Biotechnology; Cell Culture Technology; Industrial Fine Chemistry. Msc Thesis: Study.

Licentiate Degree, Biochemistry

Subjects studied: Pharmacology; Medicinal Chemistry; Immunology, Genetics, Microbiology; Human Metabolism; Physiology; Histology; Cell.