Researcher at the Bacterial Cell Biology Lab of MOSTMICRO at ITQB-NOVA. Pedro holds a BSc on Applied Chemistry – Biotechnology (2006) from FCT-NOVA, a Master in biotechnology (2007) and a PhD degree in Cell Biology (2013) both from ITQB-NOVA. From 2014 to 2019 Pedro Pereira was a Research Associate at the Quantitative Imaging and Nanobiophysics lab of MRC-Laboratory for Molecular Biology (MRC-LMCB) from University College London (UCL) and an invited lecturer at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-Heidelberg). From 2017 to 2019 Pedro was also a University partner at the Francis Crick Institute. His research focuses on microbiology and host-pathogen interaction using state of the art technology (e.g. super-resolution microscopy). From a scientific perspective, Pedro has made contributions in the fields of S. aureus microbiology, host-pathogen interaction and hardware/software technological innovations for microscopy. Besides his dedication and commitment to research Pedro has a keen interest in embracing the different aspects of knowledge creation and sharing, as such he is actively engaged in science outreach initiatives, teaching and has served in several decision boards in the institutions he worked in.