Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences & ARC Future Fellow PhD in Computational Biology Professional experience Education Scholarships & awards
Since 2023 Group Leader, ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
2018-2023 Junior Principal Investigator (Fudan University)
2013–2018 Postdoctoral researcher at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Bork Lab
2012 Postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (Lisbon), Mhlanga Lab
2011 PhD in computational biology, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation topic: Modeling the Space of Subcellular Location Patterns Using Images and Other Sources of Information,
advised by Prof. Robert F. Murphy.
2006 MSc in computer science, Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University Lisbon)
Dissertation topic: Bayesian Network Parameter Estimation Using Noisy Observations or Soft Evidence, advised by Prof.
Arlindo Oliveira.
2004 BSc in computer science, Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University Lisbon)
2022-2023 Highly Cited Researcher (Cross-field category)
2021 Zhicheng Teaching Award (first prize)
2012 Siebel Scholar – Awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to 85 top students from the world’s leading graduate schools
2009 Joint CMU-U. of Pittsburgh PhD. in Computational Biology Research Excellence Award
2008 Joint CMU-U. of Pittsburgh PhD. in Computational Biology Academic Excellence Award
2006 Fulbright Fellow
2005 Scholarship from Portuguese Science Foundation
2001 Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Academic Excellence Award