Alice has been involved in research since her undergraduate studies when she joined Prof. Cláudio A. Bonjardim’s group at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2008. After her degree in Biology, she continued in the same lab for her Master and PhD. During her PhD, she was awarded a studentship for a one year collaborative period in Prof Geoffrey Smith’s group at the University of Cambridge, in 2014. During her time in Brazil and in Cambridge, she investigated the modulation of cellular pathways by viruses, such as poxviruses and flaviviruses, during infection. 

In 2016, she returned to Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof Smith’s laboratory. Here, she worked on how viruses evade the host innate immunity responses and became more interested in immunology. 

She then joined the Boyle lab in October 2020 where she is involved in the studies about TAPBPR and the MHC-I peptide processing pathway.

Alice started as Senior Scientist at Revvity in May 2023.