Maria Soares

Maria Soares has a degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Aveiro (2017) and a Master's Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Coimbra (2019). During her master's degree she carried out her dissertation research project at the Biology of Reproduction and Stem Cell Group, in the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) of the University of Coimbra, entitled "Aging-related mitochondrial alterations in bovine oocytes". Since 2019, she is a research fellow at university of Coimbra, where she has participated in different research projects in the field of female fertility having experience in working with ovary tissue, cumulus-oocyte complexes and folicular fluid. Currently, she is a PhD student in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine of the University of Coimbra with a research project that aims to develop an anti-aging strategy to prevent female reproductive decline.