Inês holds a PhD in Technologies for Health Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon. She specialized in emerging technologies and phylogenetics for clinical microbiology, focusing on reproducible and scalable methods for metagenomics, antimicrobial characterization and genome assembly. She's a member of the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology since 2019, having published extensively on data standards and interoperability in several areas such as data collection and submission to public repositories and antimicrobial resistance reporting.Currently, Inês is a bioinformatics scientist with Theiagen Genomics, where she leverages new technologies in microbial bioinformatics and cloud computing to unlock progress in public health.