ABOUT US

Mastered in Applied Physics, Nuno worked as a programmer in 2 leading companies. In 2000 he joined the Gulbenkian Institute for managing the imaging facility and in 2008, he got the position for coordinating the scientific infrastructures, one year before finishing his PhD. This was also the year that he released Agendo as an open source solution. In 2012, Nuno took some Master classes in Management. He is involved in many European initiatives such as CTLS, EU-LIFE, and leading the CMW.

João obtained a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the NOVA University, Portugal, in 2008. In 2010, he joined the Gulbenkian Institute, where he started his work with Agendo and Ekrano. In 2011 he moved to London, where he stayed until he received his Ph.D degree in 2015 from Imperial College London, UK, for his work in autofluorescence spectroscopy. During this period, Agendo was released as a commercial product. After a brief return to Gulbenkian Institute in 2015, he also took post-doctoral positions at UC Davis and INO-CNR (Italy).

Inês is a Biomedical Engineer and she codes. Experienced in web development since 2016, she is currently working in front end development (with HTML/CSS, jQuery, AJAX and others) creating and updating the Agendo platform, and supporting the back end with PHP/MYSQL connection.

Graduated on Biomedical Laboratory Sciences in 2018, Cláudia gained laboratory expertise at the Pathology Department of Rigshospitalet (Copenhagen, Denmark) and various Portuguese institutes. She then worked as a Histopathology Technician at Gulbenkian Institute for Science and, in 2019, became the manager of Agendo platform. She is now taking the role of product manager, sales and customer support.

Marta has a PhD in Immunology by the University of Paris and currently she is Head of Flow Cytometry and Antibodies at Gulbenkian Institute for Science. Before that, Marta has worked as a researcher for 15 years, in Portugal and abroad; has been an Assistant Professor at the Medical School of the University of Lisbon; and has been worldwide R&D manager of a multinational pharmaceutical company. She is author of several scientific publications and co-inventor of a patent that was at the origin of an award-winning entrepreneurship project and the foundation of a start-up.
With her strong scientific know-how and practical input in core facility management, in 2020 she started collaborating with Agendo for business development and marketing.

Carlos graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in Informatics Engineering and holds a Master’s in Machine Learning. He has been involved in many societal projects and is keen on using IT for making science more effective and productive. Carlos’ main technical skills are systems administration, blockchain, and nodeJS/typescript. In 2021 he joined Agendo to become the systems administrator.

Mastered in Food Technology and a postgraduate in Marketing, António has a post graduation in Business Process Management and ECBL certification in Logistics.
For 14 years he worked directly with customers for a company that provides equipment for health, research and B2B markets, and acted as Sales Rep, Sales Manager, Service Manager and company procurator.
He is the Procurement Coordinator at Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência since 2010 and partner at Agendo and Flybridge.