Tomás Rodrigues graduated in 2017 in Biology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, completed his master degree in Biology and Water Quality Management in 2019 at Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, and completed one international mobility programme at University of Murcia in 2020. Currently he is a PhD student in the Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics group at CIIMAR. His main research interests are evolutionary
biology, genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, ecology and bioinformatics, and his work is focused in exploring cnidarians potential through an omic and molecular approach.