Teresa M. Seixas is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto (DFA-FCUP). She holds a PhD in Physics, a Master's Degree in Solid State Physics and Materials Sciences, and a Bachelor in Physics, from UP. She is a researcher at the Centre for Earth and Space Research at the University of Coimbra (CITEUC), serving as deputy coordinator and member of the steering committee. Additionally, she is the convener of monthly seminars and manages the website. Her research focuses on Physics, particularly the study of meteorites and asteroids, including the modeling of their reflectance spectra and the development of a consistent methodology for determining the mineralogy of asteroids from their reflectance spectra. She is also actively engaged in Physics Educational Sciences (PES), emphasizing active learning, automatic online assessment, and self-regulated learning. She has been involved, as PI, local Co-PI and researcher, in various international and national projects in Physics, Planetary Geosciences, and PES, funded by the EU and the Portuguese FCT. She has organized and participated in scientific and outreach events and co-published two eBooks and six book chapters in PES and Asteroids. She has also published articles in journals in Physics, Planetary Sciences, and PES areas and presents in conferences, invited talks, posters and oral communications. Currently supervising three PhD theses in Science Education, she has supervised master theses, projects, and seminars in various programs at FCUP. She was co-responsible for creating and supervising Extra-Curricular Internship Programs – PEEC and for Research Initiation Scholarships. She co-created the BaseGaia webpage in 2023 as part of the GeoPlaNet Strategic Partnership project, where she served as local Co-PI. As a member of the GeoPlaNet SP, she and her colleagues received a Good Practice award in 2023—an exemplarity label from the EU recognizing the high quality of GeoPlaNet SP results and implementation. From 2016 to 2023, she was a member of the coordinating council of the Collaboratory for Geosciences, where she coordinated the Integrated Services for Cosmic Risk Mitigation and contributed to the Rock Physics and Geomechanics Laboratory. Since 2021, she has been involved in the scientific-pedagogical evaluation committee at FCUP for the certification of high school textbooks. She was a co-founder and coordinator of the 1st Master’s Degree in Geophysics at UP in 2003, where she created courses, co-lectured, and supervised master students. She was also a co-founder of the Institute of Materials Physics at UP, serving as Director of the Materials Laboratory from 2002 until 2008. At FCUP, she has lectured over thirty-five courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, spanning various programs. Her teaching extends from bachelor’s to master’s and doctoral programs in Physics, Science Education and Communication, Medical Physics, Materials Science, Physics Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics. She also co-lectured Climatology and Climate Change at FEUP. She has contributed to A3C - Ageing, Climate Change and Citizenship (1st, 2nd and 3rd eds., EUGLOH), from 2019 to 2022, and she is lecturing Reflectance Spectroscopy of Asteroids and she is jury member of Computational Methods Applied to Geophysics at the University of Coimbra for the Erasmus Mundus GeoPlaNet Master Degree since 2023. She participates in science outreach programs at UP, such as Open Day, UP-Exhibition, and Week of Science and Technology, giving talks and exhibitions. She is involved in Junior University, organizing a Summer Workshop for Collection and Identification of Micrometeorites since 2017. She also participated in the Summer School of Physics, leading the Study of the Electrical Properties of a Semiconductor (2017-19) As co-coordinator of Asteroid Day Portugal since 2016, she organized the event in collaboration with Angola in 2020-21.