AWARDS AND HONOURS
| 2018 | MedChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2018 |
| 2016 | Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize – Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2016 | Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2016 |
| 2016 | International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (BSPS) 2016 |
| 2016 | RSC-SAFEA Visiting Researcher Programme – China 2016 |
| 2015 | Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Technologies Competition 2015, Health Care – Runner-up |
| 2014 | European Prize of the RSEQ Chemical Biology Division See highlight in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 12546. |
| 2014 | European Young Chemist Award (EYCA2014) – Silver Medal See highlight in Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 20, 16405-16410 |
| 2013 | Royal Society of Chemistry and Brazilian Meeting in Organic Synthesis Young Investigator Award |
| 2013 | EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia See highlight in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7349-7350 and Med. Chem. Commun. 2013, 4, 1138-1144 |
| 2013 | Ministry of Health (Portugal) for relevant services to Public Health and Medicine (Silver Medal) |
| 2013 | Selected for The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – sponsored by AKB Stiftung |
| 2013 | Journals Grant for International Authors, Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2012 | Keystone Symposia Angiogenesis Scholarship |
| 2011 | JSP Fellowship of the 46th Bürgenstock Meeting, Brunnen (Switzerland) |
| 2011 | Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery Theme Best Poster – ASBMB Meeting |
| 2011 | American Society for Biology and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Award |
| 2010 | EMBO Long-term Fellowship |
| 2010 | OzBio2010 Young Scientist Fellowship, Biochemical Society (UK) |
| 2010 | JWT Jones Traveling Fellowship – Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2008 | Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship |
| 2007 | Poster Highlight Presentation, Gordon Conference Carbohydrates |
| 2006 | First Prize in the Pfizer Oxford Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium |
| 2006 | Silver Medal for Merit from the Town Hall of Torres Vedras, Portugal |
| 2006 | EPA Cephalosporin Scholarship, Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2006 | Scholarship ‘Visconde de Alvalade’, SCP Portugal |
| 2004 | PhD Studenstship, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| 2003 | Leonardo da Vinci Research Fellowship, European Commission |