Meet the PhD Connector Grant recipients

New labs. New connections. Novel scientific breakthroughs.


Meet our LS4FUTURE PhD Connector Grant recipients! 🥳 The awardees will be travelling to European institutions to exchange knowledge, master new research techniques, and build networks that will boost their careers.

Curious about where they are going and whom they will work with? Check out what our students have to say about this next step:

João Reis – Plant Ecophysiology and Metabolism Laboratory – Supervisor Ruben Vicente (ITQB NOVA)

“This short stay at the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Luis Valledor, is an exciting opportunity to acquire advanced skills in cutting-edge computational approaches for multi-omics data analysis, machine learning, and time series integration, which are critical to the success of my PhD project and my future research”.

Ana Meliciano – Stem and Immune Cells Bioengineering Lab – Supervisor Margarida Serra (iBET )

‘I’m grateful to LS4FUTURE for supporting my stay at the Experimental Cardiology Lab at UMC Utrecht, in the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Joost Sluijter. This is an exciting new step in my PhD journey, and I’m really looking forward to learning new techniques and gaining hands-on experience in lipid nanoparticle-based RNA therapeutics. I’m excited for what’s ahead and grateful for the opportunity!’

Bernardo Lucas Raimundo – Intracellular Microbial Infection Biology Lab – Supervisor Pedro Matos Pereira (ITQB NOVA)

“I’m really excited to join Dr. Christoph Spahn’s Nanoscale Bacteriology Lab at the Rudolf Virchow Research Center (Germany), through the PhD Connector Grants. I really appreciate LS4FUTURE for enabling this exchange of knowledge, which will contribute to the development of my PhD project and to my own growth as a researcher.”

We wish them all the best of luck on their journeys and scientifically fruitful and fun visits.