Margarida Gonçalves holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Physics Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Currently, she is pursuing a second master’s degree in Medical Statistics at the same institution. Margarida is currently involved in a curricular internship at the Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), where her research focuses on the investigation of the effects of the normalization techniques in transcriptomics and proteomics data.