Maria Eugénia Rebello de A. Macedo (MEM) graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1978 and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of FEUP as Teaching Assistant. In 1980 she started her post-graduate studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. In 1984, he obtained her Ph.D. degree, at FEUP, in the area of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. Since then, she pursued her teaching and research career at FEUP. In July 1999, she obtained the "Agregação" in Chemical Engineering, also at FEUP. MEM is the Thermodynamics Group Leader at LSRE-LCM, has a quite extensive experience in the field of Thermodynamic and is internationally recognized for her high merit in Applied Thermodynamics. She is the Portuguese Delegate to the Working Party (WP) of Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering since its establishment in 2007, where she participates intensively. She is also the Chair of the International Steering Committee (since 2011) of the European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics (ESAT), the first conference on the topic that was organized and runs regularly since 1974 until the present. She is among the most cited scientists in the world, and is included in a list released by Stanford University. She has published more than 230 papers in international journals with peer review, 9 book chapters and 2 books(h index 50). She was Editor of 3 books. MEM supervised 21 PhD thesis(es) and co-supervised 2. She has received several awards and/or honors. She has been committed with industrial problems related to e.g., to separation/synthesis and purification processes in the pharmaceutical companies, that also require environmental, societal and scientific challenges. Besides this, the group leader is also member of other international societies, responsible for the organization of events where the dissemination of results from their research activities is presented to the scientific community that may be interested in their applications. During the years, she has been active in collaboration under the scope of international projects from EU, both with other research groups from EU or South America; she has also collaborated with industrial partners. The different topics where the Thermodynamics group is mostly committed include the study of novel solvents and novel techniques for separation and purification processes from the food and pharmaceutical industries, with low environmental impact and that can highly contribute to a better health and improve the life quality, in society in general. In addition, she has been very actively enrolled in the development of new thermodynamic models, either excess Gibbs energy or equations of state to accurately describe the behavior of highly complex mixtures.