Sandrina
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Curious about circuits: how the brain and spinal cord stay connected through health, ageing, and disease.

I got my start in Biochemistry at the University of Beira Interior in Portugal, then crossed Europe twice as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow — first to Lund, Sweden, making brain-targeting antibodies, then to Madrid, building optogenetic neural stem cells for Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience caught me on this last project. Today I’m finishing my PhD in Cologne, anatomically mapping how the spinal cord sends information to the brain — now I wonder how these circuits are shaped by sex, development, and ageing.