Research Team


Leonor Morgado

Leonor Morgado

PhD Student


Started in: September 2021

Funding: Abbelight Industry PhD Fellowship; ERC Grant


Leonor is a 6th-year PhD Student in our research group. Is supervised by Ricardo Henriques and Hannah Heil. Worked on 3 publications. Collaborates with 2 labs.

Leonor is interested in developing and applying machine-learning algorithms to guide super-resolution microscopy experiments. Her goal is to use these tools to study the dynamics of the cell division machinery.


Collaborations

Guillaume Jacquemet

Guillaume Jacquemet

Abo Akademi University
Turku, Finland

Joint: 21 1

Pedro Matos Pereira

Pedro Matos Pereira

ITQB NOVA
Oeiras, Portugal

Joint: 21 3 1


Latest Outreach

ITQB Microscopy Symposium 2026: Imaging the Cell with Photons, Electrons, and AI ITQB Microscopy Symposium 2026 ITQB NOVA, Oeiras - Portugal March 2026

Latest publications with our group

Word cloud of PhotoFiTT: a quantitative framework for assessing phototoxicity in live-cell microscopy experiments PhotoFiTT: a quantitative framework for assessing phototoxicity in live-cell microscopy experiments
Mario Del Rosario, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, Leonor Morgado, Raquel Portela, Guillaume Jacquemet, Pedro M. Pereira, Ricardo Henriques
Paper published in Nature Communications, December 2025
Technologies: mAIcrobe (), PhotoFiTT () and ZeroCostDL4Mic ()
Funded by: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), The Kavli Foundation, and The Wellcome Trust, CZI, EMBO, ERC, FCT, H2021 and H2022
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66209-6
Word cloud of The rise of data‐driven microscopy powered by machine learning The rise of data‐driven microscopy powered by machine learning
Leonor Morgado, Estibaliz Gómez‐de‐Mariscal, Hannah S. Heil, Ricardo Henriques
Review published in Journal of Microscopy, March 2024
Technologies: NanoJ () and NanoJ-Fluidics ()
Funded by: CZI, EMBO, ERC, FCT, H2021 and H2022
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.13282
Word cloud of Expansion Microscopy on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Expansion Microscopy on Saccharomyces cerevisiae
AG Korovesi, L Morgado, M Fumasoni, R Henriques, HS Heil, M Del Rosario
Paper published in microPublication Biology, January 2022
Funded by: EMBO, ERC and Wellcome Trust
DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000566