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- Research Fellow
- Genetics, Evolution & Environment
- Div of Biosciences
- Faculty of Life Sciences
I am a bioengineer, computational biologist and Research Fellow in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. I graduated as MSc from the first class of Bioengineers in the University of Porto (Portugal) and did research in leading scientific laboratories in Portugal, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Szeged, Hungary) and the Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago, USA). I earned my PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany) and the University of Minho (Portugal). After my PhD I worked for a short period as a volunteer English tutor with Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala (India), and then joined the Department of Molecular Evolution in the Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf as a postdoctoral fellow.
Beyond the origins and fundamentals of life, I am interested in all kinds of networks, nature, art, philosophy, literature, traveling, music, sustainable pescetarianism, compassion, meditation and science outreach. I presided over the organization of the first Symposium on Bioengineering in Porto in 2009, today in its twelfth edition. I also organized the first interdisciplinary meeting for early career researchers on the origin of life in Düsseldorf in 2018, which continues to be held biannually. I am a co-founder and member of the Executive Board of the Origin of Life Early-career Network (OoLEN).
