Mariana Mendes Lopes graduated in Nursing in 2014 from Nursing School of Oporto and completed the Postgraduate Specialization in Child and Pediatric Health Nursing in 2018, by the same institution.
She joined the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto in 2015 within the scope of the Generation 21 project with a Research Technician Scholarship (BTI).
She currently works at the EPIUnit Research and Development Unit and she’s a member of the ITR Laboratory: Life-course pathways underlying the development of obesity and cardiometabolic health.