Training & Positions

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Training, Scientific Activities & Positions

2024 – Present – Associate Professor – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, PT

2024 – Present – Group Leader – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, PT

2023 – Habilitation – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, PT

2019 – 2024- Invited Associate Professor – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, PT

2019 – 2024- Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus: Group Leader (Prudêncio Lab) – Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, PT

2019-2021 – Affiliate Associate Professor – Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University of Chicago.

2013 – 2019 – Investigador FCT: Group Leader (Prudêncio Lab) – Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, PT

2008 – 2013 –  Ciência 2007: Principal Investigator  –  Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, PT

2005 – 2008  –  Post-doctoral researcher  –  Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, PT

2004  –  Post-doctoral researcher  –  Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT

2000 – 2004  –  Post-doctoral researcher  –  University of Leiden, Leiden, NL

1996 – 2000  –  PhD Student  –  University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

1993 – 1995  –  PEDIP researcher  –  Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

1992 – 1993  –  Undergraduate research training period  –  Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

1989 – 1993  –  B.S. degree in Biochemistry  –  Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, PT

Supervisors


Courses & Workshops

¤ Course “The art of supervising students – Skills for effective and empowering supervision“, 19-20 September 2024, hfp consulting, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ Course “Gender Diversity Awareness for Employers & Service Providers”, Gender Identity Research & Education Society, 3 October 2023

¤ Workshop “Malaria Transmission: Current Challenges and New Tools in the Elimination Context“, 30, 31 October 2017, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal. Member of the Scientific Committee

¤ Workshop “Biosafety in Animal Experimentation”, 30 September 2016, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ Workshop “Communicating Your Research With Impact“, 10 March 2015, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ Workshop “Improving Experimental Design in Animal Research“, 6 February 2015, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ GCE Xcelerator Pilot Workshop, 5-7 May 2014, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA

¤ Workshop “Communicating Animal Research“, 31 January 2014, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ Building Global Innovators. ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal Venture Competition, e-Teams II Bootcamp, 4th Edition Program, 22-23 November 2013, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ Building Global Innovators. ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal Venture Competition, e-Teams I Bootcamp, 4th Edition Program, 22-26 July 2013, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

¤ TRANSVAC‘s training course “Practical approaches to vaccine development“, 11-15 March 2013, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

¤ Biosafety course “BSO BSL3 – Curriculum Biosafety”,  3-5 October 2011, Mittelhausern, Switzerland

¤ Animal experimentation – Researcher/Coordinator accreditation – FELASA B and C categories, 20 April 2011, DGV, Portugal

¤ Pre-conference Biosafety Courses, 53rd Annual American Biological Safety Association Conference, 30 September-2 October 2010, Denver, CO, USA 

¤ “Effective Writing for Life Sciences Research and Grant Proposals Course”, 6 November 2009, IMM, Lisboa, Portugal

¤ “EMBO Laboratory Management Course”, 22-24 November 2007, Ericeira, Portugal

¤ “Workshop on Weak Protein-Protein Interactions”, 9-13 July 2003, Seville, Spain

¤ “Summer School on Protein-Protein Interactions”, 23-30 June 2001, Koldkærgård, Århus, Denmark

¤ EU-ESF Practical Course “Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems”, 13-23 May 1998, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium

¤ “Inorganic Biochemistry Summer Workshop 1996”, 10-21 August 1996, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

¤ “An Introduction to PCR and Hybridisation Techniques”, March 1996, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal