I graduated in Biology in 2015 at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. Currently, I am enrolled in the master programme in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution, at CIBIO-UP, hoping to engage in an investigation carrier right after. Despite all the love for field work and birds, the genetic basis that underly natural processes or that explain phenotypes has always puzzled me, which leads to my Master Thesis subject. Nowadays I’m trying to understand the evolutionary processes and the genetic drivers that underly the distinctiveness of the critically endangered Angolan giant sable, being mostly interested in the genetic processes that can possibly explain the enormous horns in this subspecies.

At last, quoting the words of James Peebles, one of the winners of the Nobel prize in physics in 2019, “…you should do it for the love of science… You should enter science because you are fascinated by it.”