Ricardo Alexandre Barroso graduated in 2019 in Biology and obtained his master’s degree in Applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology in 2021, by the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto. Currently, he is a a PhD student in the Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics research group at CIIMAR. His work is focused on the evolution and characterization of toxins from venomous marine invertebrates through the analysis of genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes, exploring their ecological role and biomedical potential. He has research experience in bioinformatics, virology and parasitology, both in academia and industry.
