She received her PhD, in Genetics from the University of Lisbon/Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences in Portugal and was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. She is in a faculty instructor in several international imaging courses and has two issued patents on FRET imaging technology. She belongs to the following scientific societies: American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB), Biophysical Society, Histochemical Society, and Sigma Xi. Since 2008, she is a member of the governing Council of the Histochemical Society. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and acts as a reviewer for several internationally recognized journals. Abstract