Ana Rita Almeida de Oliveira completed her degree in Biologia Molecular e Genética in 2009 at Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências and her Master's in Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento in 2011 at the Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Her PhD thesis is entitled "The role of cell-cell bacterial communication in the recovery from gut dysbiosis" and was done under the supervision of Dr. Karina Xavier at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência. In June 2021, Rita Oliveira started a postdoc at The University of Chicago, United States, in the lab of Eric Pamer to study new strategies in designing symbiotic bacterial strain consortia to enhance resistance against Klebsiella pneumoniae gut colonization, while she continues to actively collaborated with the laboratory of Karina Xavier in the projects related to Colonization Resistance against Enterobacteriaceae pathogens and quorum sensing manipulation in the gut microbiota. Rita Oliveira works in the area of Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences, Microbiology, and Host-microbe interactions. Rita Oliveira has developed her mentorship skills by co-supervising and training two Master's students in the last three years. She published 6 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Has received 6 awards and/or honors. Rita Oliveira is heavily involved in science outreach activities having in the last year been interviewed twice by national TV/Radio media outlets. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological are: Quorum Sensing, Gut Microbiota, Mouse models, Colonization Resistance, Biotherapy, Metagenomics, and Mathematical modeling.