Dr. Raquel Rodrigues

Dr. Raquel O. Rodrigues is an Assistant Researcher at LABBELS/U.Minho and a former Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, with a secondment at Harvard Medical School, with the project BrainChip4Med. She obtained her PhD from the University of Porto in 2018, winning the Fraunhofer Best Portuguese PhD Thesis Competition in Biomedical Engineering. She has experience in the multidisciplinary fields of biotechnology, nanomedicine, microfluidics, biosensors, and organ-on-a-chip, acquired at highly recognized institutions, namely, Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Fulbright Research Grant) and NASA Ames Research Center (International Internship). Raquel’s professional ambition is to become a leading researcher in the area of nanomedicine and advanced diagnostic devices, which can bring meaningful and real impact to research and medicine.