Biography
I am Senior Scientist at the Novartis Pharma Lab, which I joined in 2016. In this role, I have contributed to Novartis R&D pipeline, working and managing projects on the antibody discovery field.
I hold Graduation and M.Sc. in Biochemistry, performed at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (2009 and 2011, respectively). The M.Sc. Thesis work set the ground for my subsequent Ph.D. studies, both performed at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM), Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal). There, I worked with Dengue, West Nile and Zika viruses’ capsid proteins to elucidate their interactions with host cell lipid structures.
Having acquired expertise in biophysical techniques and computational structural biology approaches, including training abroad (Germany and Brazil), I finished my Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences – Biophysics in 2016 and integrated iBET’s Novartis Pharma Lab soon after.
On a broader scientific level, I am interested in the Molecular Biophysics details of protein and peptide interactions with cell-isolated and model lipid systems, and of protein-protein interactions, especially mAb-antigen binding.