I'm a Brazilian scientist, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, now based in Barcelona after ten years in Germany. My work sits at the intersection of computational biology, multi-omics and data science, translating complex biological signals into insights that can accelerate drug development and patient outcomes.
I'm drawn to questions at the boundary between basic science and clinical application: how genomic and epigenomic signals can serve as early biomarkers, how microbial communities shape disease risk, and how large-scale biological data can be structured to support regulatory decisions.
I trained in biomedical sciences at UNIRIO and earned my PhD in Computational and Systems Biology at FIOCRUZ, where work on ocean sequencing data from the TARA Oceans project developed my interest in microbial genomics and metagenomics. I then held research and bioinformatics positions at European institutions in Berlin, Potsdam and Cologne, including cardiometabolic disease research in the EPIC-Potsdam cohort. Over my career I've moved deliberately from foundational research toward translational and clinical contexts, and that trajectory continues to define the kind of science I want to enable.
I believe the most interesting science today happens when rigorous computational methods meet real clinical questions.