Patricia Faisca's Short CV

"The physicists won't like me because I'm a renegade from physics...and the chemists won't like me because I'm a physicist. And the biologists won't like me because I do biology. And the mathematicians won't like me because I don't do mathematics."
–C. P. Snow in The Search

I. Current Position

February 2008-
Assistant Researcher (Ciência 2007 Fellow)
University of Lisbon, Portugal

II. Research Experience

February 2007 - January 2008
_Post-doctoral Researcher
Protein Biochemistry Folding and Stability Laboratory , ITQB, Portugal

January 2003 - January 2007
_Post-doctoral Researcher
Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional , Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

III. Education

January 1999 - June 2002
_Ph.D. in Physics (as part of the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biology and Medicine)
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Thesis: Protein Folding: in virtuo experiments
Supervisor: Prof. Robin Ball

September 1997 - August 1998
_1st year of the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biology and Medicine
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

[ During this year I took 28 short courses in different areas of biology (i.e. structure and function of proteins, introduction to evolution and natural selection, immunology, neurobiology, signalling etc.) ]

October 1994 - September 1996
_M.Sc. in Physics (2 years)
Departamento de Física, Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal
Thesis: Extension of the Poincaré-Melnikov Method to Homoclinic Orbits to Parabolic Points
Supervisor: Prof. Ana Nunes