(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

In October 2014 I obtained a master's degree in Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry awarded by the Science and Technology Faculty of the University of Lisbon. I started to get involved in multiple proteomic research projects.
In 2015, I decided to take my carrier further and embraced a new challenge by joining the University of Oxford as a Research Associate in biological mass spectrometry in the Chemistry department in a permanent position. The obtention of this position as a post-doc made my point valuable: That we don´t always need to follow the “usual “path to achieve the goal.
But it was in 2019 when a student from archaeology come to the lab with ancient silk that my heart melted with the history and the treasure of archaeological recovery samples. Since then, my attention and curiosity has been devoted to archaeological samples whose questions have never been answered and using proteomics I have managed to answer some of them. With samples from Pompeii, Paestrum, Ashmoleam museum, Peru Sican excavation, etc... the results and discoveries have been very interesting, both from an analytical and historical perspective.
This year I was awarded with a John Fell Funding to carry on with my research on archaeological samples and bacteria’s.
I also recently started my PhD with the University of Lisbon (Professor José Capelo) and University of Oxford (Professor James McCullagh) in archaeological proteomic research with samples provided from Professor Matthew Collins-University of Cambridge.