She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering, a Master in Electronics Engineering and a degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Católica School of Business and Economics. Her scientific expertise is in the areas of Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Human genetics, Health Informatics, Algorithms, Data Mining and AI.In the context of the Computational Biology field in Europe, she was Vice-chair of the Board for 2017 and Board member (2010-2017) representing Portugal at ESFRI ELIXIR. ELIXIR unites Europe’s leading life science organizations in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly-funded research.