I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences from the Coimbra Health School, Portugal, where I completed clinical internships in several diagnostic laboratory areas. I also participated in the Erasmus+ programme at Ghent University, Belgium, joining the Microbiology research group at the Laboratory for Bacteriology Research (LBR) and contributing to a project using MALDI‑TOF MS for bacterial typing and antibiotic resistance prediction. I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Molecular Pathology at the the School of Health (E2S), Polytechnic of Porto. My thesis work is being developed at the Immunobiology Group of i3S, focusing on immune responses in neonatal Group B Streptococcus meningitis.