Luís was born in Porto, Portugal. In 2016, he completed his MSc Degree through the Integrated Master in Bioengineering at the University of Porto. His main interests include tissue regeneration, stem cells, drug development and biotechnology. In parallel with his studies, Luís did internships in IBMC and INEB in areas such as development and cardiac tissue repair/regeneration. Luís' main interests is to assess the therapeutical and disease modeling potential of cardiac tissue engineering on cardiovascular disease and aging. Currently, Luís is enrolled in the PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine (PDBEB) from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) (in University of Coimbra), in collaboration with i3S.INEB.