Curriculum Vitae

Current Po​sition

Post-Doctoral researcher at Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto (2022 – 2025)

Education

PhD in Applied Mathematics at Universidade de Aveiro [2017 – 2022] 
Thesis title: Faithful permutation representations of C-groups
Supervisor: Maria Elisa Fernandes
Scientific Area: Algebra and Geometry  
Approved with praise and distinction by unanimity

Master in Biochemistry at Universidade de Lisboa [2013 – 2016]
Thesis title: How to disassemble a virus capsid – A computational approach
Supervisor: António E. N. Ferreira
Scientific Area: Computational Biochemistry
Final Grade: 19 out of 20            

Bachelor in Biochemistry at Universidade de Lisboa [2010 – 2013]
Final Averaged Grade: 18 out of 20

Previous Academic Positions

Lab Researcher at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Bioquímica [2017]
        · Bacterial Growth for enzyme purification

Researcher at Condensed Matter Physics Center [2014]
        · Computer simulations of protein folding  

Lab Researcher at Centro de Oceanografia/BioFIG [2012 ​– 2013]
        · Growth of dinoflagellates for protein and pigment extraction

Lab Researcher at Centro de Química e Bioquímica [2011 – 2012]
        · Growth of S. cerevisiae under high glucose

Publications

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Communications

Seminars
           · Coset geometries - from polytopes to geometric products, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal (2025)
           · Faithful transitive permutation representations of C-groups, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany (2024)
           · Faithful transitive permutation representations of abstract regular polytopes, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand  (2024)
           · Possible degrees of toroidal regular maps of type {4,4} and {3,6}, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium  (2019)

Talks at Conferences
            · Merging Coset Geometries: from group operations to fusing geometries, Buildings 2025, UCLouvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium  (2025)
            · Merging Coset Geometries: from group operations to fusing geometries, Summer JIM Days 2025, Coimbra, Portugal  (2025)
            · Merging Coset Geometries: Split extension and Twisting, Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2025, Évora, Portugal  (2025)
            · Merging Coset Geometries: Amalgamation, HNN-extension and Twisting, Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces 2025, Trenčianske Teplice, Slovakia  (2025)
             · Halving Hypertopes: A geometric approach, Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2024, Aveiro, Portugal  (2024)
            · CoreFreeSub – a package to compute faithful transitive permutation representations of groups, GAP Days Spring 2024, Kaiserslautern, Germany  (2024)
            · On the halving of leaf hypertopes, Symmetries of Discrete Objects 2024, Auckland, New Zealand  (2024)
             · Core-free Degrees of Toroidal Maps, 13th Combinatorics Days, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal  (2023)
            · Core-free Degrees of Toroidal Maps, Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics - 2nd edition, London, United Kingdom  (2023)
             · Core-free Degrees of Toroidal Chiral (Hyper)Maps, ​10th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia  (2023)
              · Faithful transitive permutation representations of highly symmetric structures, 1st Annual Meeting of DMat-UA PhD Students - Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (2021)
           · Locally Toroidal Hypertopes, 9th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Rogla, Slovenia (2019)
            · Possible degrees of Toroidal Regular Maps, 9th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory, Bled, Slovenia  (2019) 
               · Mathematical tools for solving the problem of Viral Capsid Disassembly,   Workshop on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Optimization – Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (2018)
               · How to disassemble a virus capsid – a computational approach,  Chemistry and Biochemistry Postgraduate Students Meeting – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (2017)

Poster Communications
           · Estudo de Processos Bioquímicos e Moleculares Associados à Emissão de Luz em Eucariotas unicelulares, Simpósio Ciências do Mar, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal(2013)

Extension Activities

Science communication for the general public
           · Investigação e Emprego em Matemática, Open-days FCUP 2023 – Faculdade de
Ciências da Universidade do Porto (2023)
            · Math – ciência fundamental, Episode 2 of the Podcast “UAU – Perguntas sem limites” (2022)
             · CPR Graphs of Highly Symmetric Hypertopes, Research Summit 2020 - Universidade de Aveiro (2020)

Collaborations

[October 2018] 
Research visit to the Universidade de Aveiro 
- Dimitri Leemans, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Asia Ivić Weiss, York University, Toronto

Peer Reviews

• Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (1)

Honours and Merits

• Honourable Mention to the oral communication at the Research Summit 2019 at Universidade de Aveiro, in a panel of Mathematicians, Computer Scientists and Information and Communication Scientists;
• Merit Scholarship award of Universidade de Lisboa for 2010/2011 ;
• Award for best student of the 1st year at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa for 2010/2011 .

Grants and Funding

• Post-Doctoral Research scholarship at Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto (2022 - Present)
• Financial support for PhD students to attend the 9th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics (2019)
• Financial support from CIDMA to attend international conferences and for research visits (2018 - 2022)
• PhD Scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (2017 - 2022)

Other Work Experience

[2022] 
Business Analyst at PrimeIT - External Consultant at Regnology

[2015; 2018 – 2019] 
Tutoring - Linear Algebra and Biochemistry for University students, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry for High school students