May 2011 to the Present - Auxiliary Professor, at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal December 2002 to May 2011 – Assistant, at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal October 1998 to December 2002 - Junior Assistant, at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, Portugal July 1997 to September 1998 - Responsible for the Microbiology Laboratory from the Quality Control Department, Bayer Pharmaceutics, Coimbra, Portugal

JC virus; Virology; laboratory diagnosis; environmental virology