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United States

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Life science researcher putting his multidisciplinary vision of Science and know-how at the service of Health.

Profile Summary

Rodolfo Águas is currently available for consulting services in life sciences. During his bachelor and master degrees, his research revolved around studies of cellular and molecular neuroendocrinology in the context of aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Krabbe’s disease. His most recent experience was in the field of clinical infectious disease (SARS-CoV2 diagnostics). As a curious thinker and fast learner, Águas is enthusiastic about transfer these academic skillsets into his freelance scientific career. Águas is also a lover of the arts, who aims to make the scientific process more approachable to the general public through his work in science communication. As such, Aguas was involved in the “Talks with Scientists – Decades of Science to Vaccine days” (Ciência Viva) initiative, where he provided virtual educational lectures for Portuguese high-school students about SARS-Co2 vaccination.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Neuroscience
• ★ Neuropathology
• ★ Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• ☆ Endocrinology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Newswriting

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Clinical Scientist

Clinical analysis laboratory of University of Coimbra, Portugal

January 2021 - March 2022

Research Fellow

Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Coimbra, Portugal

December 2019 - December 2020

Research Fellow

Center for Neuroscience and Cellular Biology, Coimbra, Portugal

October 2018 - April 2019

Graduate Student

Center for Neuroscience and Cellular Biology, Coimbra, Portugal

August 2012 - August 2013

Intern

Cellular and Molecular Biology Institute, Porto, Portugal

March 2011 - June 2011

Education

MSc in Biomedical Research

Faculty of Medicine (Coimbra, Portugal)

September 2011 - September 2018

BSc in Biochemistry

Faculty of Science (Porto, Portugal)

September 2008 - September 2011

Certifications

• Modular Training in Laboratory Animal Science Function A and Modules 20, 21 and 22

  Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research

  March 2022 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sandra I. Mota and In{\^{e}}s Pita and Rodolfo {\'{A}}guas and Slah Tagorti and Ashraf Virmani and Frederico C. Pereira and A. Cristina Rego(2021). Mechanistic perspectives on differential mitochondrial-based neuroprotective effects of several carnitine forms in Alzheimer’s disease in vitro model . Archives of Toxicology. 95. (8). p. 2769--2784. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Joana S. Ferreira and Jeannette Schmidt and Pedro Rio and Rodolfo {\'{A}}guas and Amanda Rooyakkers and Ka Wan Li and August B. Smit and Ann Marie Craig and Ana Luisa Carvalho(2015). GluN2B-Containing NMDA Receptors Regulate AMPA Receptor Traffic through Anchoring of the Synaptic Proteasome . The Journal of Neuroscience. 35. (22). p. 8462--8479. Society for Neuroscience