Dr Teresa Amaro has 12 years of experience in deep-sea ecology research where she learnt to adopt a holistic view in Marine Sciences and to use a multidisciplinary approach to solve scientific problems. Teresa holds a degree in Biology from the University of Porto (1998) and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University (2005). Her research focuses on understanding trophic ecology in different deep-sea ecosystems, including submarine canyons, abyssal plains and seamounts in contrasting ocean basins (Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean). Teresa has a broad range of skills within the discipline of biology. She has undertaken research on the: structure and functioning of benthic communities in relation to their environment, development of instruments for sampling /observations on processes near the seabed, biogeochemistry, taxonomy and molecular biology. Teresa has also gained experience in using a wide variety of techniques such as: in-situ and laboratory experiments, lipids and phytopigments analysis, stable isotopes, microbiology, histology, interpretation of growth rings in bivalves and modelling. During these years, all her research has been carried out within the international context of European projects. In 2017 she became the WP3 co-leader at the Mining Impact II project, in 2015 she was invited to write a monograph about submarine canyon dynamics by the CIESM Committee in Marine Geosciences and in 2013 she was awarded the Marie Curie fellowship. In a national level, TA was awarded 1 postdoc for 6 years and recently she was awarded a contract for 6 years, as an assistant researcher at CESAM. Teresa has acquired extensive experience in seagoing (> 50 cruises) and sampling the seafloor since 1998, using many different techniques such as ROVs, landers, sediment traps, corers, trawlers and especially in situ experiments. During these sea expeditions, she has learned how to plan and manage scientific cruises, being in 2014, the lead scientist for sampling activities on board of the man-submersible SHINKAI6500. She is the first author of 11 peer-reviewed papers and 12 as co-author, which has required considerable diplomatic skills, in order to combine the varying opinions and interpretations. In April 2020 she became an associate editor of Deep-Sea research journal. Moreover, in November 2019 she was nominated by the Deep-Sea Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) to attendance the Workshop on the Regional Environmental Management Plan for the Area of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) in Evora, Portugal. Teresa is also interested in deepening her knowledge on contributing to efficient management recommendations for mitigating the effects of global ecological changes, in line with the needs of stakeholders and local public.