PhD, Senior Scientific Project Manager Health Science eTraining Foundation
Rafaela da Silva holds a Diploma in Pharmacy from the State University of Londrina (Brazil) and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Zürich. She published over 50 scientific articles in prestigious international journals, in the area of cardiovascular research, in the field of atherosclerosis, aneurysm, endothelial function and shear stress biomechanics.
Before she joined HSeT, she worked as Senior Scientific Project Manager and Head of the Master in Translational Medicine and Biomedical Entrepreneurship at sitem-insel School.
She worked at EPFL and Whiuri Cardiovascular Institute (Finland) as a scientist, Visiting Professor at the Department of Cardiology- Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, and as an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). In January 2023, Rafaela joined HSeT as Senior Scientific Program Manager, in which she is actively involved in the Distance Learning Educational Programme in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (https://iagg-fge.org). Since October 2023, Rafaela also works as an e-learning Consultant for the distance learning Portuguese courses at the Word Intellectual Property Organization.
