Auxiliary Researcher funded by FCT at CIIMAR/FCUP. Majored in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1998) at Central University of Las Villas, Cuba-Spain. MSc. in Biochemistry from Medicine School “Dr. de Zarate Ruiz”, Cuba (2009). PhD in Biology from University of Porto (2013), Portugal. Postdoc at CIIMAR (2014-2017). I have specialized in non-conventional bioinformatic methods applied to functional genomics, molecular evolution, and drug discovery. Recently, my focus has been on leveraging machine learning, complex networks, and evolutionary algorithms to search and design peptide drugs from antimicrobial peptides.
