Nuno Alexandre Santos Oliveira is a research assistant and PhD student at UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, in collaboration with i3S-UP, iMM-UL, and UCL. Nuno's MSc thesis focused on zebrafish models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), extending current knowledge on chemically induced models of sporadic forms of ALS. In 2023, Nuno was awared a doctoral INPhINIT fellowship by the "La Caixa" Foundation, to study the roles of different neuron types in the pathophysiology of ALS.