Helena M.R. Gonçalves have Bachelor, MSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry and a specialization in Medical Sciences. Her chemistry formation was obtained at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto and the Medical Sciences at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar. Her major research area has always been related with the synthesis of nanoparticles and organic molecules for biological and environmental applications. In the final graduation year she started her journey with fluorescence and nanoparticles. The Master project was focused on synthesis and functionalization of nanoparticles for sensing applications. The PhD research focused on the development of new non-toxic nanoparticles, Carbon Dots, their immobilization and potential cytotoxicity. The work developed allowed her to publish the first Portuguese paper on Cdots as first author, that has been highly cited through the years. After the PhD she integrated different multidisciplinary teams in laboratories across the country. The knowledge acquired over the years allowed her the publication of numerous other papers, participation in conferences and the establishment of scientific collaborations. The work performed so far enabled her to publish more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 4 of the papers were cover pictures and 2 received highlights in Advanced Science News, 3 patents,two national and one international, 1 prize by the António Manuel da Mota foundation for efforts in the development of a biosensor for SARS-CoV-2. Additionally she attended several international/national conferences and perform requested manuscripts revisions (h index=16 with 1730 citations, according to google scholar at 14/02/2023). Recently she was invited to supervise 5 master students, three in UTAD (that have now submitted the thesis for evaluation) and two in ISEP (that have completed the degree); and two PhD student one at UTAD and one at ICBAS that were granted PhD scholarship by FCT inhighly. In 2020 and 2015 she supervised undergraduate reports of two students and from 2019-2021 she supervised a BI scholarship under the project C.Cdot: Cdots for photodynamic therapy.She is also an active funding search researcher, and over the years she submitted projects to FCT, as both PI or Co-PI, that have been well rated, but not yet approved for funding. Additionally she submitted 2 proposals for the La Caixa foundation and 3 FET-Open projects in 2019, 2020 and 2021, as PI, with an international consortium that she organized personally through the contacts that have made over my research years. Even though they were not approved for funding they were well rated. Additionally she is the REQUIMTE PI in threeFCT funded projects: CdotsBiosensingCovid19 (2020), SOLPOWINS (2020) and TrunkBioCode (2020). In all the projects she is responsible for tasks that include the development of new nanoparticles and their further modification in order to provide an innovative biosensing/energy efficient approach to a given problem.