Summary
Verónica Mixão is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician with a decade of research experience integrating genomics, population genetics and pathogen surveillance to understand emergence of pathogenicity under a One Health lens. Currently a Junior Researcher at Portugal’s Instituto Nacional de Saúde, she develops and manages bioinformatics solutions for genomic surveillance of bacterial and yeast pathogens, including the surveillance-oriented tool ReporTree. Her work spans Illumina, PacBio and Nanopore data and uniquely emphasizes hybrid genome analysis—contributing to multiple high-impact studies on Candida hybridization and loss of heterozygosity. Trained at Pompeu Fabra (PhD) and Nova Lisboa, she combines field-relevant clinical and environmental datasets with computational pipelines to strengthen links between genetic clusters and epidemiology.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Medical Parasitology, Master of Science (MSc), Medical Parasitology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedicine, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with specialization in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with specialization in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French