Research Team

Our team is composed of researchers with backgrounds in physics, biology, engineering, and computer science. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. The group's research spans various biological areas including virology, host-pathogen interactions, immunology, and cell signaling, as well as technological development in optics, super-resolution microscopy, and machine learning.
The research team is currently composed by 11 members: Bruna Henriques (PhD Student), Bruno M. Saraiva (Postdoc), Carolina Prieto Wahnon de Morais (Masters Student), Daria Aristova (Postdoc), Filipa Reinoite (Lab Manager), José Damián Martínez Reyes (PhD Student), Leonor Morgado (PhD Student), Nuno P. Martins (Postdoc), Rita Raymundo Carlota (PhD Student), Ricardo Henriques (Group Leader) and Tayla Shakespeare (Postdoc).Alumni members include: António D. Brito (PhD Student), Arturo G. Vesga (Postdoc), Afonso Mendes (PhD Student), Cheng-Yu Huang (Masters Student), Caron Jacobs (PhD Student), Christoph Spahn (Postdoc (now PI)), David Albrecht (Postdoc), Daniel Krentzel (Internship Student), Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal (Postdoc (now PI)), Hannah Heil (Postdoc), Inês Cunha (Masters Student), Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor (Software Engineer), Jerzy Samolej (PhD Student), Kalina Tosheva (PhD Student), Lucas von Chamier (PhD Student), Mario Del Rosario (Postdoc (now PI)), Mariana Ferreira (Software Engineer), Nils Gustafsson (PhD Student), Neza Vadnjal (PhD Student), Pedro Almada (PhD Student), Pedro Matos Pereira (Postdoc (now PI)), Romain F. Laine (Postdoc), Robert Gray (PhD Student), Simão Coelho (Postdoc), Siân Culley (Postdoc (now PI)) and Yue Yuan (PhD Student).