Rita Silva holds a Bsc in Biochemistry and Msc in Applied Biochemistry, specialization in Biomedicine, at School of Sciences, University of Minho (2015-2020). She was inserted in an Erasmus´traineeship at Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna (2021) and was research fellow in "Organelle Biogenesis and Function" group at i3s, University of Porto (2023). Currently, she is a PhD student at University of Porto and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in a project deciphering the functional characterization of a mammalian peroxisomal ATPase.