Ana Almeida (ARRPA) currently holds a contracted researcher position at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department (DQB). She is a member of the Molecular Thermodynamics for Sustainability group of the Research Centre in Chemistry of the University of Porto (CIQUP), at the Institute of Molecular Sciences (IMS). ARRPA holds a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in 2001, followed by a master’s degree in 2004 and a PhD in Chemistry in 2013, all from the University of Porto. Her PhD was approved with distinction. Following her master's studies, ARRPA gets on a scientific career, starting as a researcher and monitor at the School of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University (ESB-UCP) in 2005. During this time, she conducted research in the institution's Wine lab and taught Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Instrumental Methods on the Microbiology, Environmental and Food courses, until 2008. Subsequently, from 2009 to 2013, she undertook research assignments integral to her doctoral thesis, titled "Experimental thermodynamic study of benzene derivatives and nitrogen heterocyclic compounds”. In 2014, she secured a post-doctoral grant to advance her work in developing "Estimation methods of standard Gibbs energies of sublimation and solvation of drugs". Since 2019, ARRPA has been accompanying various scientific research activities aligned with internships, bachelor’s projects, master's dissertations, and a doctoral dissertation in Chemistry. Concurrently, she has been involved in teaching across different levels and subjects within the Chemistry and Biochemistry curriculum at FCUP: Thermochemistry and Molecular Energetics in the master’s degree in chemistry, Molecular Energetics in the SERP Chem program, Chemistry Laboratories II and Instrumental Methods in the chemistry degree course as well as Physical Chemistry Biology in biochemistry degree course. ARRPA co-authored numerous scientific articles (41) published in international peer-reviewed journals (hi:17), often serving as the first and/or corresponding author. She has also presented her research findings at several national and international scientific conferences and has actively participated in different initiatives promoting scientific dissemination and education, including Open University Days, Science Fairs, and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Junior University. In addition to working on different national and international collaborations, she is a referee for peer-reviewed international journals and a guest editor at an open access journal. ARRPA has also organized lectures and scientific conferences, as well as contributing to the DQB's security team and committee of researchers. ARRPA has been responsible for lab management tasks, including budgeting and acquiring supplies for lab procedures, as well as conducting instrument maintenance. With a keen focus on Physical Chemistry and Thermodynamics, her research activities span a wide range of topics, including volatility, solubility, phase transitions, intermolecular interactions, and thermodynamic stability of organic compounds. Her interests also involve developing user-friendly models to predict physical-chemical properties critical for assessing environmental pollutant mobility: vapor pressures, Gibbs energy of hydration, aqueous solubility, Henry constants and octanol-water partition coefficients.