Carla Trindade Costa, PhD in Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, is assistant researcher in the Portuguese National Institute of Health and leader of the Lifecourse Environmental Exposures Lab of ITR.
She holds 15 year-expertise in population targeted studies, and genotoxicity assessment, during which she had the opportunity to work at NIOSH-CDC, Cincinnatti, USA, in the IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome, Italy, and in the Indian Institute of Toxicology, Lucknow, India.
She has been involved in several national and international competitively funded research projects, has supervised several students at different scientific stages (from bachelor to PostDoc), and collaborates in different teaching programs of the School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Porto.
Currently, her main research interests refer to environmental exposures to complex mixtures, emerging compounds, and risk assessment.
