Ana Cristina Faria Ribeiro, obtained a Ph.D in 1999 from Coimbra University for her studies on the Diffusion of Electrolytes in Aqueous Solutions (under supervision of Prof. V. Lobo). In 2010 she got the Habilitation in Chemistry. She is currently Researcher and Professor with Habilitation at the Chemistry Department of University of Coimbra. During her PhD studies she worked as visiting scholar at the University of Regensburg, Germany, University of Naples Federico II, Itália, and University of London, Canada. Her research interests focus on the: Electrolytes and non-electrolytes. Transport and thermodynamic properties of drugs and cyclodextrins. Multicomponent diffusion. Supramolecular host-guest compounds. Since 2001 she was involved in over 9 National and International research projects. She is/was supervisor of more than 20 MSc, 6 PhD and 2 post-doc students. She has over 150 publications in ISI international journals (h-index: 30 – Google), over 22 invited lectures in meetings and universities, over 140 communications in scientific meetings and 10 papers in national journals. Besides, she has published 35 book chapters and is co-editor of 23 books. She was guest-editor of special issues of Biomolecules, Pharmaceutics and Processes. She is Member of the Editorial Board of the 4 international journals, 2 indexed in the Web of Science: Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2016, Biomolecules, since 2021, Pharmaceutical Science Advances, since 2023, and Innovation Discovery, since 2024. She has been Organizer (2), and Member of the Scientific Committee of 7 National and International Meetings. She has been referee for the international peer review journals, approximately 100. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Chemistry department of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra.