I am a PhD student supervised by Dr. Britta Velten (Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University) and co-supervised by Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute), as a fellow member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) PhD program. In my research, I am developing statistical methods and computational tools based on probabilistic factor models to infer and compare perturbation responses from single-cell CRISPR screens across different biological contexts on time-course data.

I hold an Integrated Master’s degree in Biological Engineering and a second Master’s degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. In my first master’s thesis, I was at the Laboratory of Gene Technology at KU Leuven, investigating bacteriophage genomics and biocontrol. In my second master’s thesis, I focused on multi-omics integration and classification of glioma types, at NOVA Math – Center for Mathematics and Applications, NOVA University of Lisbon, where I continued for one more year as a researcher on identifying biomolecular mechanisms driving human disease, discovering new therapeutic targets, performing patient stratification and predicting patient outcomes.