I completed my Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, at the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2014. Then, I moved to Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (University of Lisbon, Portugal), for my first postdoctoral stage (2015-2021), where I gained expertise in confocal microscopy and molecular biology techniques to study gene expression in human cells. In 2018, I was a visiting researcher at Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), which further expanded my knowledge of gene regulation. In 2021, I moved to the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (University of Coimbra, Portugal), where I studied the effects of diets on the gut microbiota, advancing my background into the field of metabolism. I am currently a junior researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro and the Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO). My current research interests are focused on the interplay between gene regulation and metabolism in cancer cells.