Ana Cláudia Paiva-Santos obtained her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology in 2018. She started her pedagogical intervention as Teaching Assistant during her PhD and then became Invited Assistant Professor. During the period 2020-2024 she has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (FFUC), where she teaches Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Technology and Nanotechnology; and became Associate Professor recently. Since 2021, she has been the Responsible Professor of Dermopharmacy and Cosmetics of her faculty and university. She has been ERASMUS+ Outgoing Coordinator since 2020, and the Student Support Office Coordinator of FFUC since 2021. She is invited frequently by the cosmetic industry for skin formulation talks, teaches in Dermocosmetics Specializations, and is a scientific revisor in several Q1 peer-reviewed journals. She is a researcher of REQUIMTE/LAQV, and her research is focused on natural products-based biomimetic nanosized biomaterials for cancer, including pancreatic and skin cancer, wound healing and cosmetics. She published > 210 papers and 12 book chapters, edited 1 book, in nanotechnology and nanomedicine, and submitted two patent applications, as a result of performed work with several national and international collaborations (h-index 41, > 5,500 citations - Scopus). Most papers were published in high-ranked journals, being positioned above all median scores of the University of Coimbra. She is among the World's Top 2% Scientists in 2022, 2023 and 2024 released by Stanford University. She has received funding for two FCT Projects in the area of nanotechnology for biomedical applications as Principal Investigator (PI). She is a Researcher of additional recent Projects related to the aforementioned topics. She has experience in supervising BSc, MSc and PhD students.