Miguel Sampaio has a Bacherlor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in Functional Biology and Biotechnology of Plants, granted by the University of Porto. Currently, he is taking a PhD at the PSI Laboratory, where he studies cell biology supervised by Doctor Cláudia Pereira. His main goal is to characterize the mechanisms behind unconventional vacuolar sorting routes and their molecular determinants through molecular biology, microscopy and biochemical techniques.