Adelaide Almeida is a Full Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology (DBio) of University of Aveiro (UA), where she got her PhD degree, in 2001, and her Habilitation, in 2015. She is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Biology was Director of Master in Applied Biology of DBio of UA, 2018-2024, and she has also been involved in the scientific board of other master and undergraduate courses. She is the Head of the Laboratory of Applied Microbiology of the DBio, since 2002. She is an integrated member of the Research Unit Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), since 2002, being the coordinator of the Thematic Line Environment and Health, since 2018, integrating the Scientific Coordinating Commission of this Center. Over the last years she placed great emphasis on the development of alternative technologies to conventional antimicrobial methods to inactivate pathogenic microorganisms, namely phage therapy and photodynamic therapy, relevant for clinic, food, agriculture and aquaculture areas. The results obtained have clearly shown that these new technologies have the potential to prevent/treat infections, even in situations where conventional chemotherapy methods (such as antibiotics) are not effective and can thus contribute to lightening the well-known problem of developing microbial resistance to antibiotics. More recently, she has also been involved in the evaluation of the beneficial effects of natural plant extracts on health, mainly as antimicrobials. She has participated in 48 national and international research projects, as coordinator (PI) of 4, CoPI of 1, coordinator at the UA of 4. She was inventor of 5 patents and published 3 books, 18 book chapters, 3 theses, and more than 260 scientific papers in ISI journals. These scientific papers were cited around 11000 times in the SCOPUS search, corresponding to an H factor of 57. She presented around 500 communications in international/national meetings, 200 as OC (43 as an invited speaker) and 300 as posters. The results of her investigation have also been disseminated through science outreach articles/ideos/interviews/news in social media (around 120). As result of her research she has received some awards (5) and distinctions (10). She has been in charge of the supervision of graduate (10 Post-docs, 21 PhD, 110 MSc) and undergraduate (144) students. She has participated in academic juries of Habilitaton (3), PhD (34), MSc (199) and projects of undergraduate students (96). She is Section Editor-in-Chief of Journal Antibiotics, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology (6 papers edited), Academic Editor of Plos One Jou (68 papers edited), Academic Editor of Antibiotics Journal (64 papers edited) and Academic Editor of Microorganisms Journal (40 papers edited), having edited 2 special issues for Microorganisms Journal and 3 for Antibiotics Journal as Guest Editor, around 200 edited papers. She has been also a regular reviewer for other scientific journals (220 papers revised). She acted as peer reviewer of projects and grants for international financing agencies (11 proj. evaluated). She has been involved in organizing various scientific events, as Co-Chair of an international congress of the 16th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology ESP2015, and as member of other organizing committee of 7 scientific meetings, 3 symposiums, 5 advanced courses and 3 seminars/workshops. She has also chaired some sessions in international meetings. She is member of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology and of the Order of Biologists, since 1990. She is a member of the European Photobiology Society (ESP), since 2008, member of the ESP executive committee board during 2017-2019. Presently is member of the Scientific Advisory Committee and of the Training Committee of the ESP. Since 2013, she is member of the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanine (SPP). She was the coordinator of the Erasmus and Campus Europae at the BDio (2008-2011).