(Chemical) Bonding is what makes life possible

I hold a BsC (2012) and MsC (2014) degrees in Biochemistry and PhD in Chemistry (2022) in the University of Porto.
During my PhD I studied three enzymes of industrial interest, the human aldehyde oxidase, sulfur oxygenase/reductase and mannosylglycerate synthase using molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods. I also got funded by the HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access programme (HPC17EOCBQ) which allowed me to spend a period of my PhD at the University of Groningen in Netherlands, from which I was able to access the Dutch National Supercomputer Snellius.
I'm currently a junior researcher at the High Performance Computing in Molecular Modelling group of LAQV/REQUIMTE being my main focus the computational study of enzymes with potential industrial application. On that topic I studied the reaction mechanisms and enzyme engineering studies of two enzymes involved in the 4S pathway targeting the green biodesulfurization of crude oil (PTDC/QUI-QFI/28714/2017).
Currently I'm involved in two lines of research, one that focus on the biodegradation of plastics using enzymes and other that focus on the study of enzymes present in snake venom under which I'm a team member of the EuroHPC Regular Access project (Murderous Venom, EHPC-REG-2022R03-205).
I'm also teaching since 2023 3hr/week Computational Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.