Carina L. Lopes is assistant professor in the Physics Department at the University of Aveiro since September 2023. She completed in 2016 the PhD in Physical Oceanography with specialization in Coastal and Estuarine Dynamics, from the University of Aveiro. After completing her PhD, she was fellowship at CESAM and during the first 8 months of 2017, she was postdoctoral fellowship, under the scope of the project CORAL, at CIIMAR. Between September 2017 and October 2020, she was postdoctoral fellowship supported by the FCT, developing her research jointly at CESAM in University of Aveiro and at MARE in the University of Lisbon. Meanwhile, she awarded a Junior Researcher contract in the scope of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus by the FCT (CEEC 2018), which started in November 2020 at CESAM in University of Aveiro. She works with numerical models since the beginning of her research career in 2008, having high technical competences in oceanographic modelling developing diversified applications from estuaries to deep-sea. She has extensive experience in physical processes driving estuarine systems and solid competences on the assessment of climate changes on coastal systems. She holds experience in the processing of satellite imagery over coastal wetlands having developed and applied algorithms to automatically derive land cover from Landsat satellite images. She also has experience in fieldwork, having participated in several campaigns for the monitoring of salt marshes in the estuaries of Mondego, Tejo, Sado and Mira, and in Ria de Aveiro lagoon. Ongoing research is focused on understanding the physical and ecological processes driving salt marsh dynamics, with special emphasis on the competitive interactions and stress tolerance of halophyte species. In total, her work resulted in 31 papers in WoS peer-reviewed journals, 14 of them as the first author. She authors 4 book chapters and 13 reports. Her work was also disseminated in national and international seminars/conferences/workshops throughout 30 oral presentations and 14 posters communications. Despite her short research career, she acquired competences indicative of scientific independency and leadership. Since 2011, she lectures several subjects related with physics in the Department of Physics at UA, which integrates the curricular plans of Sciences and Engineering courses and of the Master in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Since PhD conclusion, she successfully co-supervised the research of 3 master students and 10 undergraduate students. Also, she argued 6 projects of undergraduate students. Actually, she supervises the research activities of 1 master student. She has participated in 10 national research projects, 4 of them as research fellow. She currently integrates the team of Horizon Europe project REWRITE coordinating the modeling task. Despite not coordinating any research project until now, she contributed actively on the entire process of proposal development, since the idea creation to the establishment of collaborations, proposal writing, and definition of budget. In addition, as a project fellowship, she was involved in the writing of scientific reports (eg. milestones, annual and final) and in the organization project meetings and dissemination activities.