Diogo Gonçalves (DG) graduated in biochemistry in 2016 from Universidade Nova of Lisboa, Faculty of Science and Technology. It was during his bachelor´s degree that he participated in the ERASMUS program (one semester) at Università di Torino (Turin, Italy). In the same year he engaged a post-graduation in Bioorganic chemistry, completing it in 2017. In 2020 he enrolled in a master´s degree in Biotechnology at Instituto Superior Técnico and completed it in 2022. During his master´s degree and also at his thesis, DG acquired expertise in cellular culture, purification of extracellular vesicles, liposome preparation, microbiology techniques, molecular biology techniques, confocal microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. In 2022 DG started a fellowship under the scoop of the exploratory project SENTINELEV (EXPL/BTM-MAT/0910/2021) that allowed him to continue his research on the role of extracelular vesicles as scavengers of bacterial toxins. In 2023 DG won a phD scholarship from Faculty of Science and Technology, which started in 2024 in Instituto Superior Técnico in colaboration with Instituto de Medicina Molécular (IMM). In his Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms used: Chemistry and Biochemistry; Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials.