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An introduction to my current research interest: the microbes who live within (and without) us and how we came to create such vital interactions between ourselves.

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Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are

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Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge - and largely unexplored - role in our health. "The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome," he says.

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Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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I'm now starting a new adventure as an EEB grad student at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

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I've always loved drawing; so in 2018/2019 I conjugated that hobby with my passion for science by doing a one-year specialization in Scientific Illustration.

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I have a special place in my heart for Cephalopods: amazingly clever little Mollusks, such as octopuses and cuttlefish. They're complexity and quirkiness never ceases to fascinate me!

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In the summer of 2018 I had the pleasure of visiting Hoga Island, in the Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia. There I studied the reproductive behavior of dwarf cuttlefish (Sepia bandensis) and became an Open Water diver.

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Undergraduate in the University of Porto

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Undergraduate in the University of Porto

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With this backdrop for my entire childhood, an adoration for mountains was fostered. I used to go hiking on weekends, with a local mountaineering club.

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I was born and raised in Vila Real, a mountain-cradled town in the north of Portugal.