Ana Lillebø is the Scientific Coordinator of CESAM - Centre for Environmental and marine Studies. She holds a PhD in Biology, specialization in Ecology (2001) from University of Coimbra, Portugal. During her PhD she had externship training in Sweden and in Denmark and was award with the IMAR prize (2001). She did her Post-Doc training at IMAR, Southern Denmark University and University of Évora. Since 2006 she is an independent Researcher at CESAM/University Aveiro (UA), where from 2006-2010 she developed her research at the Dep. of Chemistry and from 2011 to present at the Dep. of Biology, where she is now Principal Researcher. She is a well-established researcher in Coastal Ecosystems with focus on: Coastal Ecosystems Ecological Status & Management; Applied Ecology & Nature-based solutions; Environmental Chemistry & Anthropogenic impacts; EU Policies & Ecosystem Services, in a transdisciplinary context. She has act as key note speaker for academics and/stakeholders’ audiences. She has participated in national and international projects: as coordinator (FCT; EU/FP7); as WP and/or case study leader (EU/FP7/FCT CIRCLE-MED Era Net; EU/H2020); and as PI at CESAM, adding up to > 4.8M € of funding. Recently she was granted with 2.5M € funding through a H2020 ERA Chair project (2020-2026) aiming at bringing to CESAM an outstanding academic in the topic of Environmental Economics and Natural Resources. She has collaborated with DG JRC on the Common Implementation Framework of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, co-authoring the 2nd Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem and their Services (MAES) report. She was also the main editor and co-author for the IWA book on Coastal Lagoons in Europe: Integrated Water Resource Strategies. She has peer reviewed papers for 40 ISI journals, 3 of them in a regular basis. She is responsible for the scientific supervision/co-supervision of 5 Post-docs (4 concluded) and of 7 PhD (6 concluded); 2 MSc (11 concluded); Graduation level (9 concluded) students. She is also responsible for the job positions and scientific supervision in the scope of research projects. She is responsible for the multidisciplinary Advanced Course - Ecosystem services provided by wetlands: Anthropogenic impacts and Environmental chemistry, included in SETAC summer school since 2015. She is the national contact point for Ria de Aveiro LTER site at the Portuguese E-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity and at ILTER marine task force. She is a member of the Council of the Portuguese Centro Hydrographical Region (APA-ARHcentro); she was member of the Council of the Dep. of Biology until 2019 and the Director of the Postgraduate Master Degree in Marine Biology at UA from 2016 until January 2020.