Carolina Eva Padilha

Masters student in Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo, with a Bachelors degree in Biological Sciences from the same institution. Conducted undergraduate research in medical genetics and archaeogenetics. During the undergraduate program, worked in the Molecular Oncology department at the Teaching and Research Institute of the Sírio-Libanês Hospital, where they studied TCR diversity in bladder cancer. At the end of the program, initiated a research project in archaeogenetics at the Laboratory of Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology (MAE-USP), which included a six-month internship at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. During high school, conducted a research project on neurodegeneration through mitochondrial transport at the Institute of Biosciences (USP), participating in regional, national, and international science fairs. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)