Catarina Paz pursued her studies in Geophysical Sciences, at the Department of Physics - Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (UL). This 5-year degree included a final one-year internship, which she completed as a visiting scientist at University of Barcelona, Spain (2004). She was then awarded a seed funding from the Portuguese State to create a startup that provided services of applied geophysics, mostly in groundwater and environment-related projects for companies and academia. At the same time, she obtained a MSc in Environmental Engineering (2009) from Instituto Superior Técnico, UL, and ended up dedicating completely to academia by engaging in a PhD in Earth Resources (2017) at the same institution. During those years, she focused her research on groundwater-dependent ecosystems modelling, improved by applied geophysical techniques. She later moved to Instituto Dom Luiz, UL, to work on soil salinity risk assessment using applied geophysical techniques. Since 2019 she's been developing her research at Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), mainly focusing on ecosystem modelling and monitoring of the subsurface. At IPS, she's also engaged in the development of the E³UDRES² European university alliance (Erasmus+ funded) through research activities and through project E³UDRES² Ent-r-e-novators (Horizon Europe funded), on the improvement of the research and innovation strategy of the alliance.