Department Director, Data Management and Risk Analysis

PhD in Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK

Areas of expertise:

Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology; Microbial Genomics/Metagenomics; Statistics

Previous positions:

Post-doctoral researcher in the ONEIDA project, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

FCT Postdoctoral Researcher at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

20 scientific publications; h-index (Scopus): 15

Two relevant publications:

Ramiro, R. S., Durão, P., Bank, C., and Gordo, I. (2020). Low mutational load and high mutation rate variation in gut commensal bacteria. PLoS Biology, 18(3), e3000617, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000617

Sousa, A, Ramiro, R. S., Barroso-Batista, J., Güleresi, D., Lourenço, M., & Gordo, I. (2017). Recurrent Reverse Evolution Maintains Polymorphism after Strong Bottlenecks in Commensal Gut Bacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34(11), 2879-2892, DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx221