I am a researcher within the domains of biological and environmental sciences, having specialised primarily in toxicology (the subject of my PhD), marine biotechnology and molecular biology. My main focus of research has been set at the interface between environmental and human health. In 2013 I concluded the Master Programme in Environmental Engineering at NOVA-FCT and, in 2015, the Graduation degree in Higher Technical Safety and Occupational Hygiene plus CCP. In 2023 I concluded my PhD in Environment and Sustainability (specialised in Toxicology) at the same institution, but the work programme was a collaboration between NOVA-FCT and The Karolinska Institute (Sweden). I published 11 articles in index international journals, of those, I hold 5 papers as first author, plus several conference proceedings, one transcriptome dataset in a public-access repository for genomic resources, 7 oral communications as speaker (4 international) and 8 posters in national and international meetings. I also hold experience in laboratory management, teaching laboratory practice and mentoring and supervising undergraduate students. During my PhD I focused on the on the environmental risk assessment from interaction between a carcinogenic contaminant and a drug widely used in human and animal medicine, contributed to the discovery of transgenerational effects and the mechanisms associated to this mixture from an environmental toxicology point of view with a strong bridge to human health. I archive experience with in vitro assays with human cell at Biochemical Toxicology department, Karolinska Institute, and with biomedical zebrafish model, working at IMM (Instituto de Medicina Molecular), Lisbon. During my years of researcher, I acquired much expertise in advanced microscopy, including scanning (SEM) and electronic (TEM) microscopy. I also have skills in histopathological biomarkers, animal handling, sample processing, scientific writhing, image processing and molecular biology through RNA extraction and RNA-Seq – based transcriptomics plus associated bioinformatics and biostatistics, having experiences in R programming. I highlight my participation in three projects within field of blue biotechnology, more specifically on phyotodynamic pigments of marine polychaetes and on novel biotoxins in non-conventional marine invertebrates with possible medical applications. Additionally, I was involved in a project in the field of climatic changes to unravelling evolutionary physiology landscapes of coastal marine fauna under extreme temperatures, and in other for optimization of biochemical biomarker assays to determine the exposure to marine toxicants.