I concluded my bachelor’s degree in 2018 in Applied Biology at the University of Minho. During my undergraduate project I was able to work in the field of immunometabolism of fungal infections, under the supervision of Dr. Agostinho Carvalho and Dr. Cristina Cunha, at the Life and Health Research Institute (ICVS). In 2021, I obtained my master’s degree in Health Sciences, at the School of Medicine of University of Minho. During my thesis, developed in Dr. Agostinho Carvalho’s lab in ICVS, I focused in the immunometabolic regulation of innate immunity by itaconate in aspergillosis disease. In the same year, I was awarded a research fellowship in the same institution, where I further developed my multidisciplinary skills. 

In 2022, I joined the Hematopoiesis and Microenvironments group, led by Delfim Duarte, at i3S Research Institute, where I worked as a research technician. Later in that year, I was awarded with an FCT-funded PhD fellowship. Since then, I have been a PhD student in the Molecular and Cell Biology PhD program (ICBAS, University of Porto), developing my project in Delfim Duarte’s lab, focused on the role of acute myeloid leukemia-induced niche remodeling in disease progression, chemoresistance and relapse.