2025 – present
PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
My research focuses on how we can integrate filamentous fungi into Bioregenerative Life Support Systems, for future Lunar outposts.
2020-2025
MSc in Bioengineering
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP)
- Master Thesis at the Space Microbes lab – “Sustainable Space Habitats: Cyanobacterial Biomass as Feedstock for Fungal Biotechnology”
- Erasmus+ at the Astrobiology and Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria, Rome, Italy
- Awards:
- Gulbenkian New Talents Scolarship (2024)
- Blue Young Talent Scolarship (2023)
- 2nd best poster at the 2024 International Astrobiology School (Florence, Italy)
- Best oral presentation at the 2025 Blue Think Conference (Porto, Portugal)
- Science outreach:
- Invited speaker at Fantasy Basel – the Swiss ComicCon, Switzerland (2025)
- Invited speaker at the 1st Meeting of Gulbenkian Scholarship Holders, to a public of over 1000 students (2025)
- Member of the Astrobiolusitanos team (2024 – present)
- Past member of the Teacher in Service (TISP) Program, at FEUP (2022)
Space Microbes Lab 