Vanessa Pereira Neto holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences obtained at University of Aveiro and concluded MSc in Molecular Biomedicine, in 2021, at the same institution. To expand knowledge and enlarge horizons she did her Master thesis in cooperation with the Endcrinology Service of Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga - Aveiro, where she had direct contact with the clinical and hospital environment and with patients with nodular thyroid pathologies where she realized that her main interest was clinical research. During her dissertation, she worked with ATR-FTIR spectroscopy to study the metabolomic profile of different nodular thyroid pathologies where she demonstrated the possible future application of this technique as a classification tool for different types of thyroid tumors. For that, she developed and applied a structured interview and initiated the creation of a cohort of the population with different nodular thyroid pathologies from the Baixo Vouga region in the iBiMED's biobank through the storage of health data and of biological samples (thyroid cytologies and plasma) in order to proceed with its characterization. Vanessa has great autonomy, sharped opinion, great communication skills, perspicacity and criticism. In 2017 she was involved in the Tutoring Programme (PT-UA), at University of Aveiro, as a Peer Mentor where she participated in the monitoring and integration of new students.