Mariana Valquaresma graduated in Medicinal Biotechnology from Escola Superior de Saúde (Instituto Politécnico do Porto) in 2022. Currently, she is in the second year of her masters degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. She will work on her thesis at CIIMAR in the Microbiome Ecology and Biogeochemistry group, with the aim to investigate the diversity of deep-sea microorganisms and how it could be affected by deep-sea mining.
