Personal profile
Biography
I finished my Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, from Instituto de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, in 2016. In December 2017, I started my scientific career at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. In 2018 I received a scholarship in the context of the PhD programme in Global Public Health from NOVA University and ISPUP-UP. Finished my PhD in November 2022, under the supervision of Dr. Ana Abecasis with a thesis entitled “Dynamics of HIV-1 transmission in Europe: A guidance for evidence-based prevention”.
I continued working full-time at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, until January 2024, for the European project “EuCARE: EUROPEAN COHORTS OF PATIENTS AND SCHOOLS TO ADVANCE RESPONSE TO EPIDEMICS. Funded by EUROPEAN UNION’S HORIZON EUROPE REF: N.º 101046016. In this project, I was responsible for laboratory work and I am managing the work package (WP) 6- Dissemination and Communication.
In January 2024, I started working half time in Portugal, and half time in the Netherlands, in the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) as daily coordinator of the ROSETTA project. The ROSETTA project is a global registry on second-generation and long-acting integrase inhibitor failures, a project more focus on the clinical insights in resistance patters to the class of antiretroviral drugs above mentioned.
To date, I have published 19 indexed articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 6 as first author and 13 as co-author and was selected to give 5 oral presentations, namely in the HIV Drug Therapy Glasgow 2024, European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Meeting (ECCMID). I am also involved in several European networks for the study of Antiretroviral Drug Resistance (ESAR – European Society for Antiviral Resistance and EuResist).