Савако Томас

Tomás Cavaco holds a BSc and a MSc in Agricultural Engineering from the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, specializing in Plant Protection and earning the maximum grade for his thesis. His MSc research focused on developing bionematicidal volatiles against the pinewood nematode, integrating both in vitro and in silico approaches.

During his MSc degree, he was enrolled at the Wageningen University and Research (WUR), in the Netherlands, in the context of an ERASMUS exchange program, where he studied Plant Sciences.

From 2022 to 2024, Tomás was a research intern at the Laboratory of Nematology at the National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research (INIAV, Portugal). From 2023 to 2024, he was a MSc student at the Rita C. Guedes Lab, the Computational Medicinal Chemistry Lab of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon.

In January 2025, Tomás has begun his PhD focusing on microbial metabolism to enhance the fermentation of plant-based proteins. This project is being carried out in the Bachmann group within the Systems Biology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), the Netherlands.

His research interests include computational chemistry, microbial metabolism, molecular microbiology, plant sciences, specialized metabolites, and volatile organic compounds.