Olga Maria Correia Chitas Ameixa obtained her PhD in Ecosystem Biology from the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic in 2011. She is MSc in Sustainable Agriculture, University of Algarve since 2007, and is graduated (Licenciatura) in Agronomic Engineering since 2003. Currently, she is a researcher at the Department of Biology & CESAM (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies) at the University of Aveiro and external collaborator of the cE3c (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group). Her current research focus is on the use of nature-based solutions to solve concrete environmental and societal problems. Presently, she is the Principal Investigator of a project related with the use of insects as nature-based solutions to solve the shortage of nutritive feeds for aquaculture (SUShI from FCT, within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020 co-funded by the FEDER). Furthermore, she is interested in the biodiversity and ecology of wetland insects and their adaptations to harsh conditions of salinity and flooding. Throughout her activities, she gained experience in rearing insects in tri-trophic systems, and on artificial diets. All this contributed to her insight into insect mass rearing. In terms of Taxonomy, over the years she acquired experience in identification of several insect families and genus. Under SUShI project, several new species records were established for coastal Portuguese territory and some for Iberian Peninsula. From 2016/17 worked as an Invited Assistant Professor of Entomology and Ecology at the Biology Department of the University of Aveiro. Currently, she is teaching Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecology, and supervising 5 PhD students, 4 Master students and one Erasmus+ internship. In the past she supervised 9 Master students, and about 13 undergraduate students. She was also Principal Investigator of a project on phytoremediation of saline agricultural soils, using an autochthonous plant species (RESTORE, financed by CNRS, France). She also participates or has participated as a team member in several other projects (LAGOONS - 7th FWP, MARSH-C-LEVEL- CNRS, PORBIOTA- FCT, POLLINATE- FCT and PAMPitUP - Fundo ambiental). She is at present the Convenor of the Working Group on "Benefits and Risks of Exotic Biological Control Agents" of the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC/WPRS) and a Member of the 4rd EKLIPSE Knowledge coordination body and the national delegate of the COST ACTION Insect-IMP. She is a board member of the Master of Applied Ecology at the Department of Biology of the University of Aveiro, In the past, she worked as a researcher at the Global Change Research Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. During that period, she participated in several international projects of the European Science Foundation (ESF) and other national Czech projects (GACR and MSMT). Her research has also focused over the years the anthropogenic environmental impacts on biodiversity. Specifically, this means effects of (i) climate change, (ii) introduction of invasive species, (iii) non-sustainable agricultural practices and (iv) landscape composition, using mainly insects as a model group, in natural and in man-made ecosystems. She has looked at all these different factors since most threatened species and ecosystems face at least two or more of these threats, which can interact synergistically. Furthermore, she has been interested on the behavioural ecology of insect host-parasitoid/predator interactions. She is and external evaluator for the European Commission, Paris region FP (FR), National Innovation agency (PT) and FCT (FCT/CAPES call).