Daniela Ribeiro graduated in Biochemistry at the Sciences Faculty of the University of Porto in 2001. She was awarded an Erasmus scholarship to perform a practical internship at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, prior to the completion of her studies. After six months working as a junior researcher at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (Lisbon, Portugal), she was granted a PhD fellowship under an EU Research and Training Network and returned to The Netherlands to work at the Laboratory of Virology of Wageningen University, on the subject of enveloped virus particle assembly. Afterwards she was appointed as an assistant professor and performed research as a Post-doc at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) on the regulation of hepatitis C virus replication by host cell factors. In October 2010 she joined the Centre for Cell Biology at Aveiro University (Aveiro, Portugal) as a Post-doctoral researcher. In 2016 she was appointed as Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Sciences from the University of Aveiro. At the end 2018 Daniela was awarded an Assistant Researcher position (CEEC2017) and is currently the group leader of the Virus Host-Cell Interactions Laboratory at the iBiMED, University of Aveiro.
Daniela is the vice-director of the PhD program on Biomedicine from the University of Aveiro, the Coordinator of the Biosafety Committee from the Department of Medical Sciences of the University of Aveiro, and the Coordinator of the Biosafety-level 2 Cell Culture Facility at the Institute for Biomedicine of the University of Aveiro.
Her team studies different aspects of the interplay between viruses and their hosts cells, such as: the role of intracellular organelles in the establishment of the cellular antiviral response, the importance of peroxisomes throughout viruses’ life-cycles, the interplay between viruses and cellular proteostasis, and the innate immune response vs viral oncogenesis