Affiliation: University of Coimbra, CNC - Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, CIBB - Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Coimbra, Portugal

Dr. João Pessoa is a Postdoctoral Researcher in metabolism at the University of Coimbra, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (Portugal). He completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2014. He did his first postdoctoral stage in gene expression at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), which included a secondment at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 2021, he relocated to the University of Coimbra. He seeks understanding how proteins defining liver cell morphology contribute to the pathophysiology of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), to ultimately exploit those proteins as diagnosis or treatment targets. Dr. Pessoa was a selected speaker at the 18^th FEBS Young Scientists’ Forum, is a member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), was interviewed for the BioPhotonics magazine and is a Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Oncology.