DIANA CUNHA REIS is a Junior Researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (DQB) and BioSystems & Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI) Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon (FCUL) since July 2019 and course responsible for the Physiology course of the Biochemistry BSc degree at DQB, FCUL. She is secretary of the Portuguese Physiological Society since October 2019.

She graduated in Biochemistry in 1999 at FCUL and completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience Specialty at the Faculty of Medicine University of Lisbon (FMUL), Portugal in 2007. As part of her PhD studies she was a visiting fellow at the Rudolph-Boehm Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany and Swammerdam Institute for Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.