CV

EDUCATION

• PhD in Computational Biology from University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (March 2009 – July 2013)
• Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley, USA (March 2009 – April 2013)
• B.Eng. in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (September 2002 – July 2007)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Lead Data Scientist in Customer Marketing at Farfetch (June 2021 – Present)
• Lead Data Scientist and Project Manager in Advanced Analytics at Roche (December 2018 – April 2021)
• SystemsX.ch postdoctoral fellow in Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Switzerland (February 2014 – November 2018)
• Researcher in Miguel Rocha’s research group at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (August 2013 – January 2014)
• PhD candidate in Computational Biology in Miguel Rocha’s research group at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (March 2009 – July 2013)
• Visiting scholar in Adam Arkin’s research group at University of California, Berkeley, USA (March 2009 – April 2013)

SKILLS

• Computational biology; RNA biology; molecular biology; systems biology; genetics; genomics; quantitative biology; gene expression; NGS data analysis; synthetic biology; microbiology; genome-scale metabolic modeling; biostatistics; machine learning; data science; programming (R, Perl, Python, Java, C/C++); basic wet-lab molecular biology methods;

RESEARCH GRANTS

• Novartis University of Basel Excellence Scholarship for Life Sciences (2017-2018).
• SystemsX.ch Transition Postdoctoral Fellowship by SNF (2014-2017).
• PhD Fellowship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2009-2013).

AWARDS

• SystemsX.ch travel fellowship to attend the EMBO|EMBL Symposium: The Complex Life of RNA, Heidelberg, Germany (2018).
• PhD Award for research of practical utility by Fraunhofer Portugal (2013).
• Travel fellowship to attend the European Conference on Computational Biology 2012, Basel, Switzerland (2012).
• Best poster award in ‘Biological computational design’ at Synthetic Biology 5.0 conference, Stanford, CA, USA (2011).
• Travel fellowship to attend the American Society for Microbiology conference on regulating with RNA in Bacteria. San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011).
• ‘Ordem dos engenheiros’ prize awarding student with highest classification among all bachelors of engineering at University of Minho (2007).
• ‘Multicert’ prize awarding the best essay in Cryptography (2006).
• Merit prize for having the highest classification in B.Eng. Computer Science and Systems Engineering in 2003, 2005 and 2006.

MEETING PRESENTATIONS

A rare-codon-based translation program of cell proliferation at EMBL: From Functional Genomics To Systems Biology. Heidelberg, Germany (November, 2018).

Rare codons enhance translation of mRNAs required for cellular proliferation at
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Days 2018. Biel, Switzerland (June, 2018).

Transcript level and sequence determinants of protein abundance and noise in E. coli at RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, Toronto, Canada (November, 2013).

Quantitative estimation of activity and quality for collections of functional genetic elements and definition of design principles for predictable gene expression at
Synthetic Biology 6.0, London, UK (July, 2013).

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