Rute Pereira holds a degree in Biology and a master's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). She was awarded a PhD fellowship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and in November 2019 concluded with distinction the PhD program in Bioengineering-Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). She is an active researcher and always seeks to improve her knowledge. She performed two laboratory internships, in 2015-2016, at the Laboratory of Animal Cell Technology from iBET-Institute of Experimental Biology and Technology, where she worked with cell cultures from human cardiac stem cells (SC), fibroblasts, and human cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent SC. She has participated in several courses (namely in the Course of Laboratory Animal Science) and scientific dissemination actions in several scientific meetings. During her PhD thesis, she studied the genetic etiology of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD). She also developed skills in bioinformatics tools to assist in the analysis of next-generation sequencing. She was awarded in 2017 with a European society of human genetics fellowship for the Course in Clinical Genomics and NGS, and in 2018 with an EMBO Travel Fellowship, to participate in EMBO Workshop Cilia. In 2019, she has been part of the staff of ICBAS rodent animal facility. Currently, she is an invited Assistant professor from the department of Microscopy from the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS)/University of Porto (UP) and performs ciliary motility external diagnostic services through High-speed video microscopy (HSVM). She was a scientific supervisor/co-supervisor of 3 graduated students and currently supervises 1 graduate student, 1 Msc and 2 PhD students. She has 17 international scientific publications and a 7 H-index. She contributed with several new mutations with total sperm immotility and with Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).