Dr Sonia Troeira Henriques

Biography

Dr Sónia Troeira Henriques graduated in Biochemistry (2003) and obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry/Molecular Biophysics (2008) from University of Lisbon in Portugal supervised by Professor Miguel Castanho. In 2008 she was awarded an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and started her postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Professor David Craik’s group. In 2009, Dr Henriques was awarded an international outgoing Marie Curie Fellowship and was appointed as invited lecturer in Portugal (Medicine School, University of Lisbon). In 2012, Dr Henriques returned to Australia upon reception of a DECRA fellowship, and in 2015 she was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. She has recently (October 2018) started a position as group leader and senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and is establishing a research team at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI) within Translational Research Institute (TRI). https://research.qut.edu.au/ptmbrg/ Her work in mechanistic studies of peptides and peptide-membrane interactions is highly multidisciplinary and places her research at the interface of chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology, membrane biology, biotechnology and biomedical research. She is the co-author of over 60 publications on cyclic peptides, drug design and/or the mechanism of action of peptides, and has presented  over 20 oral communications in international scientific conferences including invited talks in prestigious national and international conferences (e.g. Australian Biophysics Symposium 2016, Gordon Conference on antimicrobial peptides 2017, Brisbane cancer 2018).