Sónia Cordeiro dos Santos is a MSc student in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, developing her dissertation entitled "Sympathetic activation score in Heart Failure patients in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Program", and a Research Fellow at the Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), an R&D Unit from Politécnico de Leiria (FCT/UI/05704/2020), in the "SafeTrack project - Miniaturized wireless devices for continuous monitoring of patients in the emergency department", where she's collaborating in order to develop new tools able to detect adverse events in an early and effectively way inside an emergent context. Holding a BSc in Clinical Physiology, she aims to contribute for the development of new tools that can lead to early diagnosis and efficient therapies. She's currently assisting the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Tests (CPET) as a Cardiopulmonary Technician - and part of the multidisciplinary team responsible for this equipment and tests performed, additionally comprising a Cardiologist and a Pulmonologist - used for cardiac and pulmonary patients, and research projects, at the Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, under ciTechCare. For her work involved in physical activity and health science, both in research and hospital settings, she was granted a RUN-EU International RDI Mobility Research Grant, at the Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, Athlone, Ireland. Given her academic background, and her interest in constant knowledge updating, this has led to her participation in several scientific congresses of interest, and also to her integration in the organizing committee of one of these. She was also invited to give academic sessions on "Pulmonary Function Tests - Spirometry" to the Physiotherapy Bachelor's degree at the Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico de Leiria. Her research areas and interests are mainly focused on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cardiovascular rehabilitation and physical activity. Sónia is also a musician at the Filarmónica Nossa Senhora da Piedade, where she has been playing transversal flute since 2012.