Catarina Inês Nunes Pires Gonçalves completed her PhD in Biomedicine on 2016/02/01 by Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, MSc in Ecology on 2008/02/21 by Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia and Degree in Biology on 2004/06/24 by Universidade de Aveiro. She published nineteen articles in high-ranked journals in the field, namely Fertility & Sterility, Human Reproduction, Endocrine Connections and Scientific Reports and participated in the organization of the VIII and XV annual CICS Symposiums . She participated in fifteen national and international events. She co-supervised three PhD thesis, one MSc dissertation, supervised two Scientific Initiation Projects and two Molecular Biology internships as part of the Clinical Pathology internship. She has received four awards. She participated as PhD Student fellow in the project entitled "Molecular genetics and functional genomics of pituitary hormone deficiencies". As a Post-doctoral fellow in the project "ICON-Interdisciplinary Challenges On Neurodegeneration - Identification of genetic biomarkers for the neurodegeneration of hypothalamic GnRH secreting neurons". As a Research fellow in three projects entitled "Evaluation of the ecological status of the coastal and transitional water bodies and the ecological potential of the highly modified water bodies", "Molecular Genetics of Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism" and "Whole exome study of a family with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism". As Co-PI and Researcher in the project "GenoPit - Genetic risk factors for pituitary adenomas: a national, multicenter, genetic and clinical analysis". As an Invited Researcher in the "Project for the Capacitation of the Central Region for Genomics-based Personalized/Precision Medicine" and currently as a Contract Researcher in one project under the Stimulus Competition for Institutional Scientific Employment (CEEC-Institutional) entitled "Applying bioinformatics to Next-generation sequencing data in a case study of patients with CHH". Since completed her PhD with a thesis on "Molecular Genetics of Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism", she has been pursuing the same line of research collaborating with a network of several Portuguese Endocrine Clinical Departments, caring-out genetic and phenotypic studies of other endocrine disorders such as, diabetes insipidus, familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia, MODY diabetes, thyroid hormone resistance syndrome, androgen insensitivity syndrome and Hypoparathyroidism Deafness and Renal dysplasia syndrome. This national collaboration arbored in the identification of several mutations which provided important diagnostic information for clinicians. In 2019, the scientific activity was interrupted, for six month, due to maternity leave. She has been responsible for the sequencing laboratory since 2016 at CICS-UBI, where, in addition to manage stocks and equipment's maintenance, has been working on several research works and integrated and trained several students. She has been invited to give classes and lectures to medical students at universities such as the University of Porto and the University of Beira Interior, as well as at lunch seminars and meetings of the groups and Societies to which she belongs. She works in the area of Medical and Health Sciences, with emphasis on Basic Medicine, Human Genetics, Clinical Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism.