Academic qualifications: Degree in Chemical Engineering (Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), UTL, Portugal; 1998); MSc in Biotechnology (Biochemical Eng.) in 1999 (IST, UTL); Ph.D. in Biotechnology (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), 2003). Research Activities: Assistant Professor (since April 2019) Senior Researcher (Jan-March 2019) Principal Investigator under the program "FCT Investigator 2013" awarded by FCT (IST, 2014-2018) . Invited Assistant Professor at IST-ID (Sep 2016-2019) Research Scientist at IST-ID (Mar-Dec 2013). Research Scientist at IST under the program "Ciência2007" awarded by FCT (Marc 2008-Feb 2013). Post-doctoral research fellow at IST and UFZ in Leipzig (2007-Feb 2008). Post-doctoral research fellow at IST (2004-2006). Ph.D. student at IST (2000-2003). M.Sc. student at IST (Jul-Dec1999). Research Assistant of the EU funded project BIO4-CT95-0049 (Feb 1998-Jun 1999). ERASMUS student at Universidad de Murcia (April-July 1997). Research Interests The main research topics involve: adaptation of bacteria to stress conditions and toxic compounds (in particular the role of lipids in adaptation); bacterial identification by fatty acid analysis; biofilm formation; persister cells; study of bacterial phenotypic characteristics by fluorescence microscopy and image analysis; application of adapted cells to bicatalysis and bioremediation; development of bioreactors, and enzyme and whole cell based bioprocesses. Teaching experience: Professor of undergraduate and graduate-level courses at IST, including: Biochemical Engineering, Enzyme Engineering, Biotechnology, Project in Biotechnology, Laboratories of Biological Engineering, Laboratories of Biotechnology. Awards Awards received include the "Young Researchers UTL/Deloitte 2008 award", an honourable mention at the "Scientific Awards UTL/Santander Totta 2011", an honourable mention at the "Scientific Awards ULisboa/CGD 2016"and "Scientific Awards ULisboa/CGD 2018", and an honourable mention at the "INCM Innovation Prize 2016". Five-year contracts under "Investigador FCT 2013" and "Ciência 2007" programs of FCT. MSc, PhD and Post-Doctoral grants awarded by FCT, Portugal. Grants to attend courses and conferences awarded by several entities, including Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Federation of European Biochemical Societies and Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD). Associate Editor for Marine Biotechnology in "Frontiers in Marine Science" since 2017. Member of the Review Editors’ Board of “Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology" and "Frontiers in Marine Science" in 2014-2017. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Recent Patents on Biotechnology" and "The Open Food Science Journal", both since 2007. Reviewer of several journals, including: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Biotechnology Advances, Bioresource Technology, Extremophiles, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Journal of Biotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications and PLOS One.