Patricia Noronha da Costa was born in Lisbon, 1965. She graduated in Animal Science Engineering from the University of Évora in 1991, holds a Master's degree in Food Science and Technology from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1995, and obtained a PhD in Biology from ITQB/Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2002. She has published numerous scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals. From 2001 to 2005, she taught Parasitology at the Piaget Institute. She has held several exhibitions showcasing her artistic work resulting from the intersection of art and science. From 2008 to 2014, she was an artist-in-residence at ITQB, with two consecutive post-doctoral scholarships from FCT in artistic studies, focusing on the use of microorganisms as artistic instruments. The resulting work was exhibited in public and private galleries, published in the MIT journal Leonardo of art/science and technology, and various workshops and lectures were conducted. In 2006, she developed the art/science project "different perspectives on scientific objects" during a residency at ITQB, with the support of DG-Artes and Ciência Viva. She completed two post-doctoral studies in artistic studies focusing on the intersection of art and science. During this period, she held various exhibitions, including one where she presented a time-lapse film at a conference in Greece, and published two articles in the MIT journal Leonardo.