Joana Luísa Pereira was awarded her PhD in Biology in 2008 by the University of Aveiro. Since then she has been a researcher, at CESAM - Center for Environmental and Marine Studies and the Department of Biology (University of Aveiro), granted by FCT and recently through a contract with the University. Her core field of research is ecotoxicology and environmental risk assessment, although limnology, evolution and education for environmental sustainability are also strong research interests. So far, she published more than 100 SCI papers, more than 10 book chapters, and has strong participation in scientific meetings presenting her work through oral or poster communications. In their professional activities, she interacted with more than 100 national and international collaborator(s) as evidenced by co-authorship of scientific papers. She supervises(ed) or co-supervises(ed) 2 pós-doctoral researchers, 8 research technicians, 29 BSc students, 18 MSc students, 13 PhD students and 2 international internships. Concerning participation in funded projects, Joana was the PI of 2 nationally funded projects, is currently the PI of one European project (HE-Twinning) in the field of environmental epigenetics and the national PI of another (HE-RIA) in the field of bioremediation. She has been strongly committed to science outreach, through a number of activities targeted at young students (e.g. secondary school) and publications in dedicated journals and books, as well as by organizing conferences and workshops. Her strong involvement in editorial activities (1 SCI journal as Associate Editor, several SCI journals as guest editor and 1 outreach journal as editor-in-chief), international project evaluation panels (H2020 MSCA, H2020-IA, national foundations across Europe) and in reviewing consistently for a very large range of journals (record accessible through ResearcherID: A-5003-2009) is worth mentioning in addition.