Raquel Soares is Full Professor at FMUP since 2012, Group leader of "Metabesity" at i3s, "Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde". She concluded her aggregation title in Metabolism - clinic and experimental in 2009 by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP); her PhD in Human Biology in 2003 at FMUP, as well as her master degree in Oncobiology in 1996. In 1986, she graduated in Biochemistry by the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. Until 2020, she coordinated the unit of Biochemistry, department of Biomedicine, and managed the Nobre lab, a laboratory of research support in biochemistry domain for PhD and master students, clinicians, technicians of any other department or institution. Since 2009, she is Director of PhD Program on "Metabolism - clinic and experimental" located at FMUP. She published 351 papers in ISI indexed journals, as well as 15 book chapters and edited one book. She was member of organization committee of 28 congresses and other events. Raquel Soares supervised 24 PhD theses already concluded (11 as co-supervisor), 32 Master degree dissertations (6 as cossupervisor), and 10 BSc degree reports (2 as cossupervisor). She was awarded with 34 prizes. She was PI of 19 research projects and coauthor of other 29. Her field of research is in the biomedical and health sciences, with special emphasis to the ethiopathogenesis of high incident metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes, their vascular complications and their crosstalk with several types of cancer.