PhD student in the FMUL EnviHealth & Co doctoral program. The thesis project is entitled "Effects of hepatitis c virus elimination on the severity of liver disease and on the cardiometabolic profile of patients with chronic hepatitis C". The project was developed at the Genetics Laboratory of the FMUL, the Genetics Department of the Ricardo Jorge Institute and the Bento da Rocha Cabral Scientific Research Institute. Other research works related to the investigation of susceptibility genes for the development and progression of several multifactorial diseases, namely osteoporosis and hepatitis c, and also the study of biochemical/metabolic alterations associated with these same pathologies and aim to establish genotype, intermediate phenotype and distant phenotype relationships in order to increase knowledge about the pathophysiology of diseases.