Isabel Gordo

Isabel Gordo is a principal investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Oeiras, Portugal.
She graduated in Physics from the Technical University in Lisbon (IST) in 1997 and received a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics from the University of Edinburgh in 2002.
Her post-doctoral research was carried out at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência where she then became leader of the Evolutionary Biology group in 2004.
Her research aims at a better understanding of what determines the diversity and evolution of microbes. Of particular focus is the study of antibiotic resistance mutations and the genetics of microbial adaptation in mammalian microbiomes.
She has won some international competitive grants: e.g. ERC Grant in 2010, Global Grant for Gut Health in 2019 and recently the ERC Advanced Grant in 2023.
She founded the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology in 2014 and was elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2017, and of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) in 2020.