Maria Manuel Sá has a pHD in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and is an Associate Professor in the area of Statistics, Advanced Scientific Research Methods and Occupational Hygiene in the Department of Business Sciences at the University of Maia, Portugal. She worked for two years (1994 - 1996) in the "Food and Drug Analysis" department of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy. She began teaching in 1997 at the Instituto Universitário da Maia, now the University of Maia, where she has held various management positions (President of the Pedagogical Council; Director of the Postgraduate Office; Coordinator of Bachelor's and Master's Degrees; member of the General Council; member of the Scientific Council). Since 2009 she has been teaching a module on Occupational Hygiene in the Postgraduate course in Occupational Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Occupational Medicine seminar at the same university. She is an integrated Member of NECE-UBI, Research Center for Business Sciences at University of Beira Interior in the Organizational Management research line. She has been published several publications such as book chapters, papers, international conference proceedings with peer review in the domain of Chemical Engineering, Occupational Hygiene, and Psychosocial risks as author and (co)author. She also collaborates as a reviewer with several international peer-reviewed scientific journals in the field of hygiene, health and safety at work.