Education

BS./MS., University of Lisbon, Portugal, (Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology)

Ph.D., University of Lisbon, Portugal, degree in absentia through Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (Molecular Biology/Genetics)

Research Interests

- Symbiosis of coral- algae relationship
- Physiological variation of coral tissue and algae biomass
- Understanding light transport in coral skeleton and tissue
- Bleaching of reef-forming corals
- Diseases of corals