(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

Teaching Professor, Biology Department, FCUP
LAQV Requimte Sustainable Chemistry, since Dec 2019
BioISI Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, July 2007 – Nov 2019.
Member of the installation committee of the GreenUPorto Research Centre
Group leader Sexual Plant Reproduction and Development Laboratory
http://www.fc.up.pt/agplab/index.html
Coordinator of H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Rise http://www.fc.up.pt/sexseed/

Research interests
Developmental Biology focusing in Sexual Plant Reproduction. Role of Arabinogalactan proteins during pollen-pistil interactions. The plant model is Arabidopsis thaliana.
Study the network controlled by SEEDSTICK (STK) a MADS box transcription factor which is the master regulator of seed production.