Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Health Sciences - Neurosciences
School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
M.Sc. in Cell and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
B.Sc. in Biochemistry
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Positions & Employment
2018 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, US
2017 - 2018
Scientific Collaborator
Bn’ML – Behavioral & Molecular Lab, Braga, Portugal
2017 - 2018
Research Fellow
University of Minho, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal
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2012 - 2017
Graduate Research Fellow
University of Minho, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal
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2012 - 2017
Research Trainee
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Neuroscience Department at Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium
Awards & Fellowships
ISN Travel Award, International Society for Neurochemistry Meeting, Honolulu (2022)
Innovation Award, Columbia University (2022)
Biolegend Junior Investigator Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (2019)
FENS Member Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC (2017)
Student Scholarship, XIX Portuguese National Congress of Biochemistry, Guimarães, Portugal (2016)
Registration fee waiver, European Neuroscience Conference for Doctoral Students, Helsingør, Denmark (2016)
Travel Grant, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) workshop in Neuropsychopharmacology, Nice, France (2015)
FENS | IBRO-PERC grant (2015)
Seminar Award, ECNP Seminar, Esposende, Portugal (2015)
R&D systems Travel Grant, FENS Forum, Milan, Italy (2014)
PhD Scholarship, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT (2012)
ERASMUS Scholarship, European Lifelong Learning Program, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Beerse, Belgium (2010)
ERASMUS Scholarship, European Student Exchange Program, Pavol Jozef Šafarik University, Košice, Slovakia (2008)
Leadership & Service
Writer and Reviewer, Press Office at Columbia University Postdoctoral Society (2021-Present)
Member, Selection Committee for the Columbia Neuroscience Seminars (2021-2022)
Mentor, International Mentoring Program, IMFAHE, Boston, MA (2018-2020)
Member, Early Career Advisory Panel, ECNP (2016-2019)
Member, Pedagogical Committee at School of Medicine, University of Minho (2016-2017)
Representative, Graduate students at School of Medicine, University of Minho (2016-2017)
Staff Member, XV Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience, Braga (2016-2017)
Committee Member, Annual Meeting of the Inter-University Doctoral Program in Ageing and Chronic Diseases, Braga (2016)
Editorial & Peer-Review Activity
REVIEWING EDITOR
Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Pharmacology
GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
AD-HOC REVIEWER
Scientific Reports
Neuropharmacology
Neurochemical Research
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
Behavioural Brain Research
Communications Biology
Cells
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Professional Memberships
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN)
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Portuguese Society for Neuroscience (SPN)
Portuguese Society for Biochemistry (SPB)