Networks
Science runs on the people around it. These are the groups I give time to, and the roles I hold in them.
🧫 Australian Society for Microbiology, NSW/ACT Branch
The ASM is the professional society for microbiologists in Australia. I am an elected member of the NSW/ACT Branch committee, where I produce the quarterly branch newsletter that reaches about 350 members and led a complete redesign of its format. I also serve as an ASM Communication Ambassador.
🦠 Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars (JAMS)
JAMS is a not for profit run by PhD students and early career researchers. It hosts a monthly seminar in a Sydney pub, with nodes in Brisbane, Adelaide and Kuala Lumpur and a yearly symposium, so that young microbiologists can hear good talks and meet each other without the formality of a conference. I sit on the Sydney committee as the socials lead and the liaison with the Australian Society for Microbiology, I have served on the local and national organising committees in Sydney in 2025 and Brisbane in 2026, and I run the society’s social media, which exists to put early career researchers in front of an audience.
🇧🇷 Brazilian Scientific Network in Australia (ABRAÇA)
I am a Brazilian scientist working in Australia, and I serve as Communications Director of the network that connects the two. We are developing scholarship funded exchange pathways between Brazilian and Australian universities, including UNSW, and I currently host two Brazilian students in my group at the University of Sydney.