Jéssica Sousa is a Research Assistant at INL. Her primary responsibility is the validation of an optofluidic device for the detection of bacteria in food samples.

Jéssica Sousa holds a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering and is currently a PhD candidate in Biological and Chemical Engineering. Her doctoral research focuses on developing an integrated microfluidic device for the early diagnosis of sepsis, a life-threatening clinical condition characterized by organ dysfunction caused by infection.