Alexandra Nunes, PhD (Biology - Molecular Genetics). Researcher at the Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA). ANunes published 70 peer-reviewed papers (3158 citations; h-index 27) (31 since 2020), 20 as first (co-)author and 5 as corresponding author, including a The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, Nature Microbiology and Matter, two revisions (one by invitation), 13 preprints/datasets, and more than 18 publications in national scientific journals (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6449-8053). She is a co-inventor of the European patent application 'SURFACTANT-BASED HYDROGEL, METHODS AND USES THEREOF' (EP24160080.8), filed in 2024. ANunes is recipient of 7 awards/honors, including the European ERA-NET PathoGenoMics Ph.D. Award 2011, which recognizes "up to three of the most remarkable and outstanding PhD theses in the field of genome research on human-pathogenic microorganisms". ANunes has participated (as PI or collaborator) in 28 collaborative research projects at national and international level, including 3 on behalf of the OneHealth approach (OneHealth EJP-JRP13-R2-AMR2.22-FED AMR; OneHealth EJP-JRP24-FBZSH9-BEONE; OneHealth EJP-JRP21-R2-ET2-TELE-Vir) funded by Horizon 2020, TITANGEL (as PI) funded by FCT/Portugal, and HERA (ECDC/HERA/2021/021 ECD.12236) funded by ECDC. Currently, ANunes participates in five projects (two as PI), such as the EU4Health projects GENEO (EU4H-PJG ID-101113460, for enhancing national infrastructures and capacities for WGS-based surveillance and outbreak investigation activities) and DURABLE (EU4H-2021-PJ4 ID-101102733, for delivering a European unified response against Epidemics). In 2019, she was nominee as the Portuguese National Molecular Surveillance Focal Point for the European Reference Laboratory Network for Tuberculosis (ERLTB-Net) - ECDC. Being proficient in cell culture, microbiology, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, with total access to the NIH sequencing core-facility, ANunes scientific activity focuses on "microbial genomics" of pathogens with impact on public health, in particular for: i) epidemiological surveillance of diverse pathogens; ii) outbreaks investigation; iii) microbial evolution and within-patient adaptation studies; iv) establishment of genotype-phenotype relationships; v) identification of emergent pathogen threats; vi) analysis of relevant phenotypic traits; and vii) development of novel antimicrobial compounds or drug-delivery systems. She is also involved in the development and implementation of bioinformatic automated and flexible solutions for an integrative surveillance of multiple bacterial and viral pathogen agents. Since 2020, ANunes has been continuously involved in the genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal. Recently, as a member of Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit of INSA, she was awarded with the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services from the Ministry of Health, on behalf of scientific advice towards the pandemics control. She is also a member of the COST Action CA21145 "EURESTOP - European Network for diagnosis and treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections". So far, ANunes has (co-)supervised 27 students, including 1 Post-doc, 1 PhD, 9 MSc, 15 BSc projetcs and 1 Eramus student. At the moment she supervises one BSc, 8 MSc and three PhD students. ANunes is an invited professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV) (since 2018) and at School of Psychology and Life Sciences (EPCV) (since 2021) at the Lusófona University (ULusófona). As such, ANunes is the institutional liaison between the Infectious Diseases Department of INSA and the FMV-ULusófona on behalf of research studies under the One Health context. Since 2024, she is a member of the Animal and Veterinary Research Centre (CECAV) research unit.