Sara Pimenta is a master's research fellow at the Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), an R&D Unit from Polytechnic of Leiria (FCT/UI/05704/2020). She is currently enrolled in the Physiotherapy Master's degree (Exercise Prescription) of the School of Health Science, Polytechnic of Leiria (ESSLei). Her research areas and interests are mainly focused on chronic respiratory disease, pulmonary rehabilitation, physical activity, and self-management and person-centred interventions. Since 2021, Sara has been collaborating on 3 funded research projects. She was a research fellow on the ForPharmacy project (Future pharmacy as a plug-and-play ecosystem) where she was collaborating in the identification of functional and operational requirements for the subsequent creation of a self-management module for COPD and other respiratory diseases. Within this work, she was attending the Advanced Course in Research in Health Sciences (ESSLei). In this course, she acquired skills and knowledge about research and systematic review methodology. Further, during the work on the ForPharmacy project, she was granted a RUN-EU International RDI Mobility Research Grant in the field of physical activity and health science, at the Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest - Athlone Campus, Ireland. Sara is also working on the OncoEnergy project (FCT REF UIDB/05704/2020) in the field of prehabilitation for lung cancer surgery, where she is collaborating in data collection in clinical settings and co-production of scientific papers. Since her last internship of the Physiotherapy degree in 2020, she is collaborating on the OnTRACK: On Time to Rethink ACtivity Knowledge: a personalized mHealth coaching platform to tackle physical inactivity in COPD (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007628), where she actively participated in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis and in the design of the experimental methodology and recruitment. During her research career, Sara has published 4 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 2 as first-author; and first-authored 2 abstracts for (inter)national congresses, and co-authored 5 abstracts, 3 of them published in conference proceedings. Sara was also part of the team honoured in 2022 at the 1st Portuguese Congress of Lifestyle Medicine. She also co-authored the work awarded with the best oral communication, in 2 national congresses in the field of oncology. In 2022, Sara was invited to participate in an oral presentation at a ciTechCare event - ScienceSwing, in the field of health promotion in Chronic Respiratory Disease. Sara also has working experience in the area of geriatric rehabilitation, having already worked as a physiotherapist integrated into a multidisciplinary team in an elderly home care.