Alexandre Areias Castro

Bio

I’m a PhD Student at the Centre for Microbiome Research in Brisbane, Australia. I have an enormous passion for biology and informatics, which allows me to create a perfect balance and explore the maximum of my capabilities, while doing two things I have an tremendous interest in. Trying to keep on learning and improving is one of my personal mottoes, in the endless journey of creating a wiser and better version of myself.

On this site I keep my CV and a blog. If you want to check out my work, you can take a look at my GitHub profile.

Research Interests

  • Systems Biology: metabolic engineering, community modelling, computational dynamics of complex systems and simulating interactions
  • Microbiology: how small life forms can produce outcomes with higher orders of impact in ecosystems, with special focus in human health
  • Metabolomics: linking genotype, phenotype and metabolic activity to overall function in small and large-scale biological systems
  • Machine-Learning: data-driven predictions for behaviour, role categorization and designing models with applications in medicine

Background

Academic

  • Bachelor of Science in Applied Biology
    Universidade do Minho, 2018-2021

  • Master of Science in Bioinformatics
    Universidade do Minho, 2021-2024

  • PhD Candidate
    Queensland University of Technology, since 2024

Professional

  • Application Security Researcher
    Checkmarx Ltd, 2021-2023
  • Bioinformatician, PhD Candidate
    Centre for Microbiome Research/Big Data Biology Lab - QUT, since 2024