Members - Sara Patricia Monteiro-Martins

Dr. Sara Monteiro-Martins is currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Anna Köttgen at the Institute of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Medical University of Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. Her work involves large-scale genetic and multi-omics analyses of complex human diseases, particularly kidney-related traits. She integrates genetic, molecular and imaging-derived data in close collaboration with clinicians and interdisciplinary research teams.

Dr. Monteiro-Martins completed her bachelor’s degree in pathological anatomy in her hometown of Porto, Portugal. During and after her undergraduate studies, she gained research experience in academic settings by working at life sciences research institutes in northern Portugal. She completed a master’s degree in bioinformatics at the University of Minho in Portugal, further developing her interest in computational and quantitative approaches to biological data. She subsequently moved to Göttingen, Germany, to undertake a Ph.D. in genome science (bioinformatics) at the International Max Planck Research School. She carried out her doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer, focusing on the integrative analysis of multi-omics data to investigate transcriptional regulation. After completing her Ph.D., she relocated to Freiburg, Germany for postdoctoral research.