She is an Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the University of Aveiro, Department of Biology, since january 2013. She completed her PhD in Microbial Biotechnology - area of ¿¿Biology - in 1998 from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She completed her first degree in Biology in 1991 from the Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon and in 1989 a BSc in Microbiology and Genetics from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. She is the Coordinator of the Laboratory of Microbial Biotechnology (LBM) at Dep. of Biology of the University of Aveiro. She is Director of the Masters Course in Microbiology at the same university. She has published 100 articles in WoS journals. She is author/co-author of 3 book chapters and 1 book. She has 1 registered patent. She organized 17 events. She has supervised 11 PhD theses and co-supervised 4. She has supervised/co-supervised more than 80 Master's dissertations and supervised/co-supervised more than 30 final degree projects. She received 5 awards. She was the Principal Investigator of 3 FCT-funded research projects and participates / participated as research team member in 15 projects. In her Science Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the scope of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: Biological Sciences - Systems Biology and Molecular Biology.