My interest in science was awakened during elementary school when I won the Science Olympiad, in the 2001/2002 school year. In 2009 I joined the Integrated Master's course in Environmental Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, one of the best engineering faculties in Portugal, which I finished in 2014. During my academic career, I encountered topics related to air quality and atmospheric emissions that have always been of great interest to me. The choice of my master thesis became evident, having developed the work entitled: "Indoor air quality in kindergartens: comparison of urban and rural environments". I had the opportunity to work with a highly specialized team that allowed me to expand my knowledge and acquire skills in the monitoring and modelling of atmospheric pollutants. During this period my interest in scientific research and the desire to pursue a career in science became even more evident. After finishing the Master's, I worked as a research fellow in the INAIRCHILD Project (PTDC/SAU-SAP/121827/2010) where I was involved in the monitoring phase of air pollutants and data analysis, exposure modelling and impact assessment on human health, as well as in the dissemination of results: two articles as first author (published in the renowned journal Environmental Pollution with impact factor: 8,071) and five as co-author in international journals indexed in the Journal Citations Report (JCR journals) and four communications in scientific meetings, as well as in the organizing committee of the final seminar of the project. During this period, I also had the opportunity to collaborate in the European Project FP7 Capacities "Future Cities" (FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1) with technical support during pollutant measurement campaigns for the calibration of low-cost sensors through reference instruments. After the end of the INAIRCHILD project, I was challenged to continue a research topic that was on hold, which I readily accepted. I started working as a fellow in the EMISSHIP project (PTDC/CTA-AMB/32201/2017) focusing my work on the assessment of atmospheric emissions from ships and their impacts, having published three articles as the first author in this period (two published in the renowned journal Environmental Pollution with impact factor: 8,071 and one in Journal of Environmental Management with impact factor: 6,789), an oral communication and two-panel presentations. Of these scientific items, I highlight the article "Assessment of shipping emissions on four major ports of Portugal" because it was the first scientific publication to quantify emissions from international ships in Portugal. In 2019 I was awarded the FCT PhD scholarship under the topic "Towards reducing atmospheric emissions from shipping - Forecasting and assessing human health impact" and have been developing work in this area since then. Since I started my PhD program, I have been deepening my skills in air quality modelling and health impact assessment and monetization (EMEP/MSC-W model, WRF model, AERMOD, CALPUFF, GIS tools, R software, Fortran language and Linux skills and others) of ship-related emissions, having published three articles as first author (published in the renowned Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics with impact factor: 6,133; one in Environment International with impact factor: 9,621 and one in Urban Climate with impact factor: 5,731), five oral communications. At the same time, I also collaborated in the elaboration of two scientific articles that resulted from the work that was developed in two visits to the Universidad de Cádiz (2017 and 2021), two articles from ArRisCO project (PCIF/SSO/0101/2017) and an article resulting from the partnership of our group with the University of São Paulo in Brazil.