Pilar Baylina has a Master degree (Environmental Engineering, MSc) and Bachelor degree (Chemical Engineering, BSc) from the Faculty of Engineering at University of, and a PhD in Public Health - Policies, Management and Health Administration from the New University of Lisbon, with focus in management of healthcare-associated infections. She is an Adjunct Professor at the Health School - Polytechnic Institute of Porto since 2003. She published more than 20 articles in specialised magazines. She has 3 book chapters, supervising 2 doctoral thesis. supervised /co-supervised more than 20 master's thesis. She participates and / or participated as an Investigator and manager in more than 5 funded projects related with biotechnology and other areas, such as quality/environmental management. Dr. Baylina works in the Health sector since 1998, with focus in Quality, Environmental, Occupational and Risk Management. She also developed Public Health research with emphasis on Medical Biotechnology. In her professional activities, she interacted with more than 100 collaborators in co-authoring scientific and technical works. She has several years of experience as consultant/trainer for the development and implementation of quality and environment management systems, risk management, and collaborated with Portuguese Certification agencies and international organisations as external auditor/trainer. She is also an entrepreneur since 2008. She is the Co-founder of InnoPhage, Lda. She works with several researchers in entrepreneurship field since 2008. she was co-founder and co-responsible of a Laboratory of Medical and Industrial Biotechnology. This research unit was coordinated by Dr. Fernandes and Dr. Baylina and it is dedicated to applied research to industrial and medical solutions by means of biotechnological and microbiological methodologies. This unit was particularly devoted to molecular virology using animal and cell models for the applications of oncolytic viruses, bacteriophages, and molecular diagnostics of diseases. The lab was also supporting the creation of a newborn STARTUP: AP Factory. This unit has the following facilities: Core Lab, Cell and Biomaterials Engineering Lab, Microbial Biotechnology and Immunotechnology Lab, Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Lab and the Unit of Bioinformatics. Other Activities: Dr. Baylina was Vice-President of the Portuguese Order of Engineers (North council), responsible for the development of several engineering, technical, and general activities and projects. Actually, she is a board member of Associação Portuguesa de AVC - Porto (APAVC) and a member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetes (SPD). She . Ciência ID: 1419-F23D-4920 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3740-862X Scopus Author ID: 56534079700 ResearcherID: B-5134-2010