Andreia Albuquerque Wendt studied Applied Chemistry (Biotechnology) and in Biochemistry from FCT NOVA. In 2013, she obtained a Master degree in Biomedical Sciences - Molecular Biology at IHMT-NOVA, specializing in the field of Leishmania parasites. In 2018, she got her PhD in Molecular Medicine from the Hannover Medical School, focused on glycobiology of Toxoplasma gondii.  Recently, she got an Individual Fellowship Grant H2020-MSCA-IF-2017 to develop the post-doctoral research project “A targeted knockout screen for identification of Leishmania membrane transporters required for infection of macrophages” at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology - University of Oxford - UK in the Gluenz lab. Her current scientific interests lie in Leishmania host-pathogen interactions.