Andréia Santos

Andréia Santos is a Senior Innovation Project Manager at F6S, overseeing multiple EU-funded projects and managing the entire project lifecycle, including planning, KPI monitoring, and stakeholder engagement. Previously, Andréia served as Team Lead and Senior International Consultant at SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, focusing on managing Science, Technology, and Innovation projects, identifying funding opportunities, and providing consultancy services to the private sector. With significant research experience, Andréia held positions as a Faculty Researcher at the Universidade do Minho, contributing to metagenomics and biosurfactant projects, and as a Scientific Researcher at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, specializing in dairy product enhancement. Andréia's academic background includes a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Agricultural Microbiology from Universidade Federal de Lavras and a degree in Biological Sciences from Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de Fora.