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Some of the events my colleagues, students, and I have participated in since 2014
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In February 2025, I started a new position as an Assistant Professor at the UCP. This will be a major change in my career!
Isabel Costa, my MSc student, won the best poster at the XXI SPE Congress! December 2024, Lisbon. Here is Isabel at our 2024 Christmas dinner.
Carla Henriques, my PhD student, defended her PhD thesis in November 2024, at GIMM, in Oeiras. She did really well! And here we are, her family, friends, colleagues, the jury members, and Carla, in the middle, holding the flowers!
Here we are, Rui and I, at Bells Beach, on the Great Ocean's Road, near Melbourne, in South Australia, in September 2024!
We attended the International Society for Behavioural Ecology Congress 2024, held in Melbourne, Australia, from 29 September to 4 October. It was amazing!
The workshop in Erice was an amazing experience! Erice is the most beautiful place! Rui and I are in this photo. Can you find us?!
In September 2023, we were in Erice, Sicily, Italy, for the workshop on the Neurobiology of Social Behaviours, organized by the Ettore Majorana Foundation.
The Neuroethology 2022 meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 24th to the 29th of July! Rui Oliveira, my PI, is the scientific chair. It was a very nice conference!!
Check out our new fly training machine for the SocialFly Project! IGC, February 2022.
Carla Henriques, my PhD student, won the best talk at the XVIII Congress of SPE! October 2021, Online meeting.
Manuel Sapage, my PhD student, won the best poster at the XV ENBE! November 2019, Matosinhos.
Rita Andrade, my PhD student, won the best poster at the 1st PhD meeting of her Doctoral Program! October 2019, FCUL, Lisbon.
Our pretty zebrafish from the selection experiment of the SocialGenes Project!
Having a tea in Turku, Finland, August 2019, during the ESEB meeting.
Little cute Lusitanian pine vole that Rita Andrade is studying for her PhD!
Coloured fruit flies that students are using for their PhD and MSc theses!
Taking a walk in London, UK, December 2019, during the ASAB Winter Meeting.
The Fundação Gulbenkian exhibition, in Lisbon, March 2019. Rui Oliveira, my PI, was the scientific curator.
Carla Henriques, my PhD student, presenting her poster in the SPN meeting, Lisbon, June 2019.
The Behaviour 2017 conference held in Estoril, Portugal. Rui Oliveira, my PI, was the scientific chair. It was a great conference!
Visiting EDB lab, at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, in June 2017. I met my former PhD supervisor, Etienne Danchin, and it was great!
Presenting my poster to Hanna Kokko at the 2015 ESEB meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland. After this, we collaborated on an article that was published in 2020!
On October 7th, 2015, at FCUL, I helped organize, with Telma G. Laurentino, the public debate "Does evolutionary theory need a re-think?" With the participation of Margarida Matos, Teresa Avelar, Octávio S. Paulo, Etienne Danchin and myself. This event had the support of APBE and was very enriching for the student audience!
Visiting Andy Gardner and Gonçalo Faria in St. Andrews, Scotland, 2015. Gonçalo started his PhD with Andy Gardner shorter after this visit!
Filipa Vala, me and Rita Ponce at the inauguration of the exhibition "A Viagem de Darwin", July 18, 2015. Rita and I helped organizing the exhibition! See here a TV interview about the exhibition.
Celebrating Darwin's Day with my niece, in 2014. I went to her elementary school to talk about Darwin and his life and work.
Inês Órfão, my former PhD student, giving a talk at the 6th Conference of Poeciliid Biologists, in 2014, Exeter, United Kingdom.
Ingo Schlupp, me and Manuel Sapage (our future PhD student) in Oklahoma, USA, 2014. Our first visit to Ingo's lab and the starting of a long lasting collaboration!
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