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My PhD research integrates genomics and social science to study nonhuman primates at the interface with humans in the shared landscapes of West Africa, with Sierra Leone as my primary fieldwork site.Besides NOVA FCSH, I am affiliated with the University of Exeter (UK) and the University of Porto (Portugal). I collaborate closely with the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) and the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), where I conducted my laboratory work.

Molecular laboratory work; onboarding and training of new team members; project oversight; management of stocks; administrative work.

Fieldwork in Sierra Leone; laboratory work from DNA extraction to sequencing; genetic data analysis.

Awarded traineeship at the Primate Research Institute of the Kyoto University. Experiments on primate behaviour and cognition on chimpanzees and bonobos.

Ecological data analysis and writing of reports within the scope of the European Initiative on Business & Biodiversity (B&B).