Joaquim Manuel Trigo Marquês (PhD) is a Junior Researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) (University of Lisbon). Presently, he is deeply motivated on making use of membrane biophysics to unravel the mechanisms behind fungal resistance and the mode of action of antifungals. With a proposal aimed at pursuing its current scientific goal, he was awarded a highly competitive (8% success rate) 6-year research position in the 2018s CEEC call (grade 9.5/10), a program to promote scientific employment in Portugal. In 2021, he applied to and was awarded a research grant as Principal Investigator of the FCT project EXPL/BIA-BFS/1034/2021 (49954.90€ of funding) aimed at unravelling the role of sphingolipid hydroxylation in the organization of yeast plasma membrane and antifungal mode of action. From a background in Biochemistry, he developed his PhD in Molecular Biophysics focused on studying how membrane lipid organization influences the interactions with small compounds. After completing its PhD in 2015, he participated in different research projects. Those included exploring how sphingolipid organization in the plasma membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae impacts on the antifungal mode of action and fungal resistance and evaluating the therapeutic potential of new potent isoniazid derivatives to target multi resistant tuberculosis. During his post-doc he developed research abroad at the Institute of Mechanics from Chinese Academy of Sciences at Professor Jin Gang lab, where he studied the dependence of protein adsorption and lipid bilayer formation on solid substrates with electrical potential using a unique technique - total internal reflection imaging ellipsometry; at Professor Andreas Herrmann lab at Humboldt University, Berlin, he studied the organization of the plasma membrane of different yeast strains employing fluorescence microscopy approaches (confocal microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy). He co-authors several publications in peer-reviewed international journals and has an h-index of 13. The large majority of the papers are classified as Q1, and 4 of them are in top 10% journals, including one top 1. He also co-authors 3 book chapters of international circulation. His work has been presented in 17 oral presentations and over 40 poster communications. He has delivered 10 oral communications in international meetings and has already been invited to deliver 4 seminars. Joaquim has received 6 awards and/or honours. Since 2020 he is a member of the Reviewer board in membranes and, since 2021, he is a Review Editor in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. Starting from 2020, he has peer-reviewed over 20 scientific articles. He has been a jury member of different scientific activities including several thesis examination committees since 2020. As a current member of CQE image committee (since 2019) he is involved in the preparation of the monthly CQE newsletter (43 issues so far), organization of seminars and CQE annual meeting. He has co-organized and taught a hands-on workshop on yeast cell culture manipulation and preparation (2 editions) and comprised the organizing committee of the CQE Days (2021 and 2022 editions) and the scientific committee in the 2021 edition. He also comprised the scientific committee of the 3rd Chem & Biochem Students Meeting, FCUL, 2023. He teaches Biochemistry (practical classes) in the Biology course (since 2021) and taught Experimental Biochemistry I in the Biochemistry course (2023). Since the start of his CEEC contract (July 1st, 2020) he was involved in 19 supervising activities including MSc, undergrad, scientific fellowships and international programs. Every year, he actively participates in outreach activities directed towards both high school and BSc/MSc students including Ciências Research Day, Dias Abertos da FCUL, CQE Open Labs week among others. During his career, he has been awarded 2 Best poster awards in 3 travel funds.