Bruna Costa graduated in Biology in 2016 at University of Porto. Afterwards, she pursued Master studies in Functional Biology and Biotechnology of Plants at the same university. She developed her Master thesis at i3s/INEB, under the supervision of Fabíola Costa and Paula Tamagnini, inserted on the AntiBioCoat project. Her work was focused on the development of a coating technology that attributes bacterial anti-adhesive properties to surfaces, mitigating biomaterials associated-infection. With this work, she won an Innovate Oral Award at iMed conference in 2018, attributed by AstraZeneca Foundation.

Currently, she is researcher fellow at i3S at the Bioengineered surfaces team where she is engaged in the AntiBioCoat (Anti-adhesive Biopolymer Coating Project) project from CaixaImpulse 2018 CI18-00060 (PI: Fabíola Costa) assisting the translation of AntiBioCoat coating to industrial settings and the preparation of the medical device dossier for CE mark.

B. Costa has been engaged in several technology transfer programs including, RESOLVE 2016: Technology Transfer Ignition Program in the Health Sector, Portugal (Norte2020), Startups School from UPTEC - Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia (2018), ClimateLaunchpad 2018 - a Climate-KIC Programme from the EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) and HiTech- training Program in translating technology and entrepreneurship skills from Porto Business School (2018).