Susana Rocha graduated in Biochemistry (2001) from Faculty of Sciences and completed her PhD (2010) in Pharmaceutical Sciences – Biochemistry from Faculty of Pharmacy, both in University of Porto, Portugal. Currently, is a Contracted Researcher in REQUIMTE LAQV Porto, was a Contracted Researcher in REQUIMTE UCIBIO Porto (2016-2019) and a postdoctoral research fellow at REQUIMTE UCIBIO Porto (2015-2016) and at IBMC.UP (2012-2014). As author or coauthor, published 52 articles in international journals (6 as corresponding author), 1 book chapter, 76 abstracts in journals (national and international), presented 39 oral and 128 poster communications at international and national scientific meetings and has received 3 awards and/or honors. Her journal articles have 1244 citations (1039, excluding self-citations) and her Author h-index is 20 (Scopus). She Co-supervises 1 PhD thesis and has Supervised 1 MSc dissertation and several undergraduate students research projects. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project, as a Pos-doctoral Fellow in 2 projects, as a Research Fellow in 2 project and as a Contracted Researcher in 2 projects. Works mainly in the area of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Clinical Medicine/Hematology and Biological Sciences/Biochemistry. Her research interests and experience encompass the erythrocyte, oxidative stress, anemias, chronic kidney disease, psoriasis, obesity, pregnancy and development and characterization biomaterials with antioxidant/anti-inflammatory proprieties. Of special concern is the study of oxidative stress modifications in the erythrocyte, particularly of its membrane, field in which she contributed with important achievements, namely, showing, for the first time, the unequivocal importance of cytosolic glutathione peroxidase in the protection of the red blood cell membrane against oxidative stress induced injury, as well as clarify the roles of peroxiredoxin 2 and catalase on the erythrocyte’s cytosol and membrane of healthy individuals. She also reported that these findings were translational and corroborated by studies with Hereditary Spherocytosis patients (an hereditary hemolytic anemia associated to oxidative stress). In her curriculum the most frequent terms in the context of scientific output are: Erythrocyte membrane proteins; Peroxiredoxin 2; Oxidative stress; Hemoglobin autoxidation; Hereditary Spherocytosis; Clinical severity; Chronic Kidney Disease; Inflammation; Resistance to rhEPO therapy; Renal failure; Hemodialysis.