Eulalia Pereira is an Associate Professor, with Habilitation in Chemistry, at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal. She is a researcher at LAQV-REQUIMTE in the Research Group Nanoplatforms for Life. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry, at the University of Porto, in 1996, in coordination chemistry. She then did a Post-doc at Sandia National Laboratories/University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, working with Prof. John Shelnut. In this post-doc, she started to work in Nanotechnology and SERS. In 2000, she started her independent research group in LAQV in Nanochemistry and Nanotechnology, and she has been working in the synthesis and characterization of metal nanoparticles for applications in bionanotechnology, since then. Her current scientific interests are i) development of metal nanoparticle-based biosensors; ii) development of nanostructured plasmonic substrates for ultrasensitive SERS; iii) nanotoxicology of metal nanoparticles; and iv) hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis. She is co-author of 90 publications, with an h-index of 31 and 3 538 citations (ResearchID: C-6282-2013). She was the supervisor of 3 Ph.D. students and co-supervised 4 Ph.D. students, and she supervised/co-supervised 15 M.Sc. students. She was the scientific advisor of 6 post-doc projects and she co-advised one post-doc project. She participated in 16 research projects of which she was PI in 3.