First year PhD student from the Cyanobacterial Natural Products (CNP) team at CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research). Experienced in: cyanobacterial natural products; cyanobacterial biosynthetic pathways; heterologous expression of cyanobacterial BGCs in E. coli; bioinformatic analysis of metagenomics data; genetic manipulation of cyanobacteria and E. coli; compound identification through LC-MS; compound isolation using a LC-MS approach; structural characterization through LC-MS and NMR; and maintenance of cyanobacterial cultures. Participated on the research “Discovery and Heterologous Expression of Microginins from Microcystis aeruginosa LEGE 91341” published in ACS Synthetic Biology. Presented the developed research during the bachelor’s and master’s internships in 4 national congresses – IJUP 2022 by the University of Porto (1 oral presentation and 1 poster presentation); and Blue Think Conference 2020, 2022 and 2023 by CIIMAR (3 poster presentations) – and 2 international congresses – Directing Biosynthesis VI by the Royal Society of Chemistry (1 poster presentation); and XIII European Congress on Marine Natural Products and XVII International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (1 poster presentation). Awarded a PhD Scholarship by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Won the “Best Internship Award” from the Blue Young Talent plus program promoted by CIIMAR with the work developed during the master thesis. Volunteered on field and science outreach activities for the TREC expedition during its stop at CIIMAR. Participated in science dissemination activities, namely, Mostra UP and CIIMAR open day. Holds a BSc degree in Biochemistry by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Porto (ICBAS), and a MSc degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology from FCUP. Currently, enrolled on the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Program at ICBAS.