Vilma A Sardao

Vilma A. Sardão is an Assistant Investigator at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing (MIA-Portugal), University of Coimbra. She graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Coimbra in 2002 and obtained her Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 2008 at the same University. During her Ph.D. and Postdoc, she had 47 months of International experience at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA. She has gathered robust technical laboratory know-how in mitochondrial physiology and respirometry, cell culture, western blot, microscopy, and other cellular and molecular biology methods. Vilma A. Sardão has been focusing her career on mitochondria's role in cell physiology, pathology, and toxicology (>40 published papers). Her scientific background allowed her to establish national and international collaborations in interdisciplinary fields. Her scientific interests focus on mitochondrial remodeling during hormonal status alteration after menopause and the associated development of menopause-associated pathologies. Vilma currently has 53 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (22 in Q1 journals, 14 as first/last author, >1522-2330 citations, h-index 22-27, source: Web of Science/Google Scholar), six book chapters, 21 invited oral communications, more than 40 selected oral communications, and more than 85 posters in national and international conferences. She also obtained some scientific prizes, including the award for student Merit from the University of Coimbra (2002), the Aventis Prize for Scientific Research (2003), and the Graduate Student/Postdoc award, endorsed by the Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism, 2006..