Valeria Custudio

PhD student at ITQB-NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal), PhD and Masters in Research (MRes) student at Castrillo Lab at the University of Nottingham, with a Future Food Beacon grant 

Email: sbavc1@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk

Valéria holds a BSc in Biology from Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) and an MSc in Biochemistry from Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). In her MSc, Valéria studied the interactions between phytopathogens and phytoprotectors isolated from vineyards as a potential biocontrol strategy.

Her MRes work at Nottingham focusses mainly on combining soil mineral content, soil microbiome composition and plant microbiota and nutrition to disentangle the main drivers that influence maize productivity and mineral content.