Adelaide Almeida is a Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Biology (DBio) of the University of Aveiro (UA), since 1990, where she got her PhD degree, in 2001, and her Habilitation, in 2015. She is the Director of the Master in Applied Biology of the DBio of UA, since 2018, and has been involved in the scientific board of other master and undergraduate courses. She is the Head of the Laboratory of Applied Microbiology of the DBio, since 2001. She is an integrated member of the Research Unit Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), since 2002, being the coordinator of the Thematic Line Environmental and Health (EH), since 2018, integrating the Coordination Committee of this Center. Over the last years she placed great emphasis on the development of alternative technologies to conventional antimicrobial methods, namely phage therapy and photodynamic therapy, to inactivate pathogenic microorganisms relevant to the clinic, food, agriculture and aquaculture. The results obtained have clearly shown that these new technologies have the potential to control infections, even in situations where conventional antimicrobials are not effective, contributing to lightening the microbial resistance. More recently, she has also been involved in the evaluation of the beneficial effects of natural plant extracts on health, mainly as antimicrobials, but also as anti-inflammatories and antioxidants. She has participated in 40 international and national research projects, as coordinator (PI) of 4, CoPI of 1, coordinator at the UA of other 3. She was inventor of 3 patents and published 3 books, 15 book chapters, 3 theses and 229 scientific papers in ISI journals. These scientific papers were cited around 5500 times in the ISI Web of Science search and 5700 times in the SCOPUS search, corresponding to an H factor of 42. She presented 429 communications in international and national meetings, 165 as oral communications (37 as an invited speaker) and 254 as posters. The results of her investigation have been disseminated through science outreach articles (8), videos (2), interviews (18) and news in social media (around 69). As a result of her research she received some awards (5) and distinctions (10). She has been in charge of the supervision of graduate (8 Post-doc, 18 PhD, 92 MSc) and undergraduate (130) students. She has participated in several academic juries of PhD (18), MSc (166) and BSc students (43). She is an Section Editor-in-Chief of Antibiotics Jornal, Academic Editor of Plos One Journal (59 papers edited), Guest Editor of 2 special issues in Antibiotics and in Microorganisms, and member of the Editorial Board of the journals Microorganisms (12 papers edited), Antibiotics (18 papers edited), Frontiers in Microbiology (15 papers edited), SM Journal of Hepatitis Research, Open Medicine and EC Microbiology. She has been a regular reviewer for other scientific journals (180 papers revised). She acted as peer reviewer of projects for international financing agencies (8 projects evaluated). She was the Co-Chair of an international congress. She was member of the organizing committee of other 7 scientific meetings, 5 advanced courses and 2 seminars. She has chaired some sessions in international meetings. She is consultant of an international project, consultant for a company and expert in a court process. She is member of the Portuguese Society of Microbiology (SPM) and of the Order of Biologists, since 1990. She is a member of the European Photobiology Society (ESP), since 2008, and actively joined the ESP executive committee board between 2017 and 2019. Presently is member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ESP. Since 2013, she is member of the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanine (SPP). She was the coordinator of the Erasmus and Campus Europae at the BDio (2008-2011).