Physical Description

Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 112
Hair: Shoulder-length dark brown with bleached streaks who's colors change regularly, usually worn twisted up in a clip or worn in a ponytail (when not under a cap in the clean lab)
Eyes:An amberish brown with a steady almost unrelenting gaze at times as if she forgets she is not still looking through her microscope.

Distinguishing Features: Triple pierced ears that only rarely hold earrings, double crescent moray-eel scar on right calf recieved while developing new strain of kelp, tattoo of a smiley-faced cartoon daisy upon the back of her left ankle.

Personality:Irreverent and mildly sarcastic but generally amiable over all.

Personal Quirks:Stylus or plural often held poked into clipped or ponytailed hair, unable (when sitting) to keep leg or foot from 'going' when thinking either deeply or absently (a variant of pencil-tapping)

History:Raised in a middle class family in Portugal she has had a life-long fascination with plants which was easily indulged and nurtured with her gardens nearly choking out the house's actual lawn, as well as the fact that her cousin worked at a florist's shop nearby which she often visited after school during elementary years.

During the later years of her youth she learned of and fell in love with genetics. Achieving admission to a prestigious scientific institute in France for her higher education she excelled in all courses of study related to biotech research. Even being chosen to work in an assisting capacity with one of the professors during her third year.

Recieving a doctorate in botany and phd in biotechnology she returned to Portugal to work for a small oceanographic biotech firm which was developing strains of kelp both larger and tasty rather than just palatable, gambling on patents and approval by the myriad of national food standards in the hope of claiming a niche in both the health-snack and gourmet market potential of biotechnology.

Trying to make kelp taste like chicken wasn't as fascinating as she had hoped it would be, especially knowing her collegues were out there the world over making truly groundbreaking strides in the field. So when the oppurtunity was presented
to her to go develop strains of plants designed for the specific needs of a Martian colony from the dietary needs of the colonists and pharmacopia that the medical doctors will be able to trust in the event of possible shortages of medical supplies to whatever unexpected events might be served with a biotech answer.