Mariana Simões is a research manager and scientist. She is the Project Manager of MOBILIsE, an ERA Chair project funded by the H2020, coordinated by INEB/i3S (www.mobilise.i3s.up.pt). 

Previous management roles: Project Manager of the Twinning project SymbNET coordinated by Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência – IGC, Oeiras (2021-2024); Development Manager (2020-2022) and Project Leader in Germany (2015-2018) at Native Scientist.

Scientific background: 5-year Biology Degree, University of Evora (2004); Undergraduate and graduate studies in fish social and reproductive behaviour at Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada - ISPA, Lisbon (2003-2005); Graduate and PhD student at Instituto de Medicina Molecular – IMM, Lisbon (2005-2013) studying the role of innervation in vertebrate appendage regeneration; PhD in Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (2013); Postdoc studies in anthropogenic impact on vertebrate populations using museum collections at the Naturkundemuseum in Berlin, Germany (2013-2015); Postdoc studies in vertebrate cardiac repair at the Max del Bruck Centrum in Berlin, Germany (2016-2019).