Ana I. Gonçalves was awarded an FCT Individual Junior researcher grant from the Stimulus of Scientific Employment, Individual Support (CEECIND) - 3rd Edition (2020.01157.CEECIND). Ana is currently a post-doc researcher under an FCT R&D Project at the 3Bs Research Group, University of Minho. Ana holds a PhD in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells (2017/12/14, University of Minho) in collaboration with Prof. Alicia El Haj (Keele University, UK). She obtained her MSc degree in Biological Engineering in 2010 by University of Minho. Ana has worked under 5 National financed projects (with fellowship) being actively involved at the start of a research line at the Institution (Tendon Tissue Engineering). She is involved in writing proposals for competitive funding from National and International agencies, such as a recent EC funded Twinning Project - Achilles. She is currently core team member in 3 ongoing projects (FCT R&D project MagTT PTDC/CTM-CTM/29930/2017, Achilles Twinning project no. 810850, and ERC CoG MagTendon no. 772817). In these projects, besides all the research activities, her involvement includes co-responsibility in scientific management, monitoring and reporting, and outreach/dissemination activities. Ana is Co-Chair of the Achilles Conferences organized under the scope of the H2020 Twinning Project Achilles (https://achilles.i3bs.eu/). In addition, Ana has presented her work in the most important conferences of the field such as TERMIS, EORS, and MagMeet, in which she had active participations such as co-chairing sessions, reviewing abstracts, and being involved in the organization of symposia. Ana was recently elected as member of the TERMIS-EU Communication and Outreach committee (2021-2024). She has been involved in the coordination and mentoring of trainees, MSc and PhD students work plans. She recently co-supervised a MSc student in Biomedical Engineering, resulting in a thesis with the final grade of 19 being also distinguished with an Award of Excellence from University of Minho. Ana Gonçalves research interests focus on magnetic force-based technologies, mechanotransduction, and dynamic environments, as means to increase the functionality of tendon tissue engineered substitutes in vitro and post implantation. Her latest works have been reported in the Materials Today' news section and IOP Publishing website. She has reviewed publications from 10 different international peer review journals and served as reviewer for the Encyclopedia of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (Academic Press). Ana Gonçalves is currently author of 23 full papers in International referee journals (20 published, 3 under revision), 9 papers are as first author and 2 papers as corresponding author, with Q1 score; 9 book chapters, 16 conference articles ISI Web of Science Indexed, 70 communications in international meetings either oral or poster, including 4 invited presentations such as at ESSKA Arthroscopy symposium 2019 and 5th TERMIS World Japan 2018. She has an h-index of 11 and over 300 citations according to Scopus and an h-index of 13 and 373 citations according to Google Scholar.