Paulo César da Silva PinheiroDr. Paulo Pinheiro graduated in Applied Biology in 2001. His PhD was focused on characterizing the function/pharmacology of presynaptic glutamate receptors and their contribution to brain disorders. In 2009 he moved to the Institute for Neuroscience nd Pharmacology, Copenhagen, where he obtained, among others, a prestigious 2-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship and a large grant from the pharma industry. Here, his work was devoted to studying vesicle biogenesis, the vesicle priming process and the molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release. In 2012 Paulo won a competitive 5-year FCT investigator position at the CNC, Portugal, which he effectively took in 2015. He is currently part of the large Synapse Biology group led by Ana Luísa Carvalho, with a fully equipped electrophysiology lab, Coimbra, and collaborates extensively in-house and with international colleagues in diverse research topics. In 2023 he was hired in a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Life sciences, University of Coimbra. Read More Read Less