Azevedo Maria J

Maria João Azevedo graduated, in 2018, at Faculty of Dental Medicine of University of Porto, where she obtained her master degree in Dental Medicine. For her master thesis, she researched within the fields of oral microbiology and biomaterials and, since her graduation, she already published one original article in a high-impact international journal as first author and presented several posters, in national and international congresses. Maria João was distincted as one of the Best Oral Communications in 12th edition of IJUP. Since January 2020, Maria João is a Doctoral student in Oral Health Sciences, at Vrije Unviersiteit Amsterdam. She received a PhD Grant, from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, to exclusively work in her doctoral project “Project OralBioBorn”, a collaboration between the Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam), Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João and FMDUP. Her current fields of research are human microbiome and preventive dentistry.