Ana Nunes de Almeida is a Research Professor at ICS-ULisboa, and is currently the Chair of the Scientific Board (2014-present). She obtained the licence in Sociology in 1979 (at the Fac. des Sciences Économiques et Sociales, Univ. de Genève, CH), the doctorate in 1991 (at ISCTE, Lisbon), the habilitation in 2009 (Universiy of Lisbon). Her research themes include family and work, fertility and reproductive health; children and childhood; children and animals; higher education and school dropout; ethical challenges in the research with children. She was enrolled (mainly as a PI) in 27 national and international research projets and published (as an author, a co-author or editor) 25 books, 70 book chapters and 48 peer review articles. She regularly presents papers (as a key note speaker or a participant) in the most important sociological fora, either in Portugal or in Europe. Outreach activities, promoting science-society interface and disseminating research outputs outsider Academia, have been a constant along her career. At ICS, namely, she was a co-founder of the Permanent Observatory of Schools (2003), with the major objective of bringing together social science researchers and secondary school students (debates in schools on social problems and vocational expectations; Summer School at ICS, providing a research training to young people). She was one of the founders and the Coordinator of OpenSoc – the InterUniversity PhD in Sociology (2010-2014), where she is a lecturer. Ana has supervised 17 PhD thesis and has been intensively iinvolved in academic juries and evaluation pannels for recruitment and promotion of teachers/researchers. She was a Pro-Rector (2006-2013) at the University of Lisbon, where she launched the Permanent Observatory of Students and the Quality Assurance System, in close collaboration with the EUA (European University Association). Ana was the President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (1994-1998) and is an active participant in international scientific networks. She's a member of the Bureau of the Sociologie de l'Enfance of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF), and of the Directive Board of the Research Network on Sociology of Children and Childhood, European Sociological Association (ESA). Ana has coordinated projects responding to specific social demands and to inform public/private policies, commissioned by stakeholders, namely: the Parliament (child abuse and neglect), UNICEF (children poverty and deprivation), the Gulbenkian Foundation (children and internet; school funding and management), J.Martins, a private company (on work-family balance and childcare). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the PT IAC (Child Support Institute) and a member of the Ethical Board of the Collaborative Laboratory ProChild. Once a Pro-Rector, she created the Permanent Observatory of Students, fuelling data to substantiate academic integration and school drop out prevention by the Rectorat. She is deeply involved in ICS-Iscte study on social impacts of covid19. https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=2D6jvEgAAAAJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-3870