Dr Taiana Maia de Oliveira studied Biological Sciences and completed a Master’s Degree at Universidade Federal do Ceará. She received her Ph.D in Structural an Molecular Biology from the University of Tromsø, Norway. She joined the EMBL-Grenoble in 2012 as a postdoctoral fellow, and applied Single Particle Cryo Electron Microscopy to investigate the structure of TOR complex 2. She joined Astrazeneca in 2016, and since then she has worked on establishing and expanding cryo-EM in the company in order to bring bulky multiprotein complexes and large membrane proteins into the realm of Structure based Drug Design.