Experience

BlueBio Alliance
• Portugal
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Media & Communication Manager

  • Feb 2023 - Present


Science Crunchers

• Portugal
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Science Writer

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2023

  Science writer and communicator at Science Crunchers Science writer and communicator at Science Crunchers



Champalimaud Foundation

• Portugal
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • May 2019 - Feb 2021

  - Learning Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown - Research on hippocampal activity and spatial attention in behaving mice in a virtual reality environment. - Learning Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown - Research on hippocampal activity and spatial attention in behaving mice in a virtual reality environment.



LA BioMed – Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

  - Pediatric Storage Disorders Lab LA, David Geffen School of Medicine (Harbor-UCLA) - Research on CLN6 pathology on a mouse model of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease). - Pediatric Storage Disorders Lab LA, David Geffen School of Medicine (Harbor-UCLA) - Research on CLN6 pathology on a mouse model of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease).



King's College London

• United Kingdom
• Research Services

• Research Assistant

  • Feb 2016 - Jun 2017

  - Pediatric Storage Disorders Lab, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute - Research on the effects of gene therapy on a CLN5 sheep model of late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease). - Pediatric Storage Disorders Lab, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute - Research on the effects of gene therapy on a CLN5 sheep model of late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten Disease).



UCL

• South Korea
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Feb 2016

  - Experimental Neuroinflammation Group, UCL Institute of Neurology -Volunteer internship researching rodent models of multiple sclerosis.

• MSc Student

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  - Speech Communication Lab, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience -Research on neural patterns and behavioural responses to nonverbal emotional vocalizations.



University of St Andrews

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Student

  • Dec 2013 - May 2014

  - Perception Lab, School of Psychology and Neuroscience - Research on the role of nonverbal cues in attraction in dyadic interactions assessing vocal pitch, vocal intensity, speech rate and laughter. - Perception Lab, School of Psychology and Neuroscience - Research on the role of nonverbal cues in attraction in dyadic interactions assessing vocal pitch, vocal intensity, speech rate and laughter.