I am a young researcher with a background in Neurobiology and a great interest in behavior. In my first research experience, I worked at the Padova Neuroscience Center (Italy) in the laboratory of Dr. Claudia Lodovichi. We worked on olfactory and sleep behavior in a mouse model associated with Parkinson's Disease, using an "in vivo" electrophysiological approach. I recently moved to the laboratory of Dr. Maria Luísa Vasconcelos at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown (Portugal). Our focus is the innate behavior, in particular the mating behavior of Drosophila melanogaster. We use a combined behavioral, genetic, imaging, and electrophysiological approach to determine how defined neural circuits and their activation elicit specific behaviors.