Sandra Correia is a researcher at the Center for Functional Ecology (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and the Director of the Department of Specific Crops at InnovPlantProtect collaborative laboratory, investigating plant/organism interactions in biotic stress responses towards the development of biobased innovative solutions to protect crops from pests and diseases. With a Ph.D. in Biology - Plant Physiology and an MSc in Plant Biotechnology, Sandra Correia has a large experience in plant physiology and cell and molecular biology. As a researcher, she has mostly developed her work at the Centre for Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra, focusing her research on the study of in vitro-induced plant morphogenesis processes, namely the induction of somatic embryogenesis as a tool to study the molecular basis of totipotency acquisition in plant cells.