"Everything I was doing at the Faculty of Sciences of ULisboa was pure mathematics: logic, topology, functional analysis, abstract algebra. All this education helps me process problems more quickly and see connections between what I'm doing at one moment and other ideas, other problems, and other techniques... mathematics has this characteristic!"

"My experience as a young adult and student at FCUL, and especially in the Department of Animal Biology (at the time still the Department of Zoology and Anthropology - DZA), was absolutely essential to my success, and I feel I had the opportunity to learn from and work with the best professors and researchers in the world. My bachelor´s degree in Biology was the most solid university education I could have hoped for, and if I had to go back in time, I would undoubtedly return to the Faculty of Sciences and the DZA to do it all again."

"My journey through FCUL, more specifically in the Master's program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, is what allowed me to be where I am today. Having a degree in Biomedical Sciences, it was at FCUL that I discovered my passion for programming and decided that this was truly what I wanted to do: combine the world of Life Sciences with the world of Informatics. (...) Without a doubt, I wouldn't be here if I hadn't gone through FCUL!"

"FCUL and LASIGE gave me the essential theoretical and practical knowledge and foundation in my training in informatics, software design, and scientific research, as well as preparing me for the most competitive (and well-paid) software engineering environment in the world, Silicon Valley."